Claim · model-written summary
No-tillage lowered soil bulk density by 32% in 2015 relative to conventional tillage.
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e0“Soil bulk density was 34 and 32% lower in 2014 and 2015, respectively, in NT compared with CT”
Title
Rahmatullah Hashimi; Masakazu Komatsuzaki; Takuya Mineta; et al. Biological Agriculture & Horticulture 2019. doi:10.1080/01448765.2019.1577757
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- Intervention effect No-tillage with clipped-weed mulch raised eggplant yield relative to no mulch in both years.
- Intervention effect No-tillage with clipped-weed mulch raised eggplant crop residue relative to no mulch in both years.
- Intervention effect No-tillage lowered soil bulk density by 34% in 2014 relative to conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Clipped-weed mulch significantly affected surface-layer soil water content in both tillage systems and years.
- Intervention effect No-tillage raised soil organic carbon concentration by 85% at 0–2.5 cm relative to conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect No-tillage raised active carbon concentration by 20% at 0–2.5 cm relative to conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect No-tillage raised October soil nitrate nitrogen and exchangeable magnesium relative to conventional tillage at both sampled depths.
- Intervention effect No-tillage raised October exchangeable calcium and available phosphorus at 0–2.5 cm relative to conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Clipped-weed mulch increased soil inorganic nitrogen during the growing season in no-tillage plots.
- Recommendation The authors recommend no-tillage with clipped-weed mulch for raising yield and soil carbon in organic farming.