Claim · model-written summary
Mulching increased fresh red chilli yield by 2.4 Mg ha−1.
- Taxon
- chillie0
- Treatment
- Mulchinge0
- Outcome
- fresh red chilli yielde0
- Direction
- improvede0
- Value
- 2.4 Mg ha−1e0
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e0“Mulching improved fresh red chilli yield by 2.4 Mg ha−1”
Title
Nirmal Kaur Sekhon; Chandra Bhushan Singh; Ajmer Singh Sidhu; et al. Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science 2008. doi:10.1080/03650340701817014
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Rice residue mulch lowered maximum soil temperature at 50 mm by up to 8.9°C.
- Intervention effect Rice residue mulch lowered minimum soil temperature at 50 mm by up to 2.2°C.
- Intervention effect Mulching required 120 mm less irrigation water.
- Intervention effect Mulching increased soil profile moisture by 12 mm.
- Intervention effect Mulching lowered weed biomass by 13.5 Mg ha−1.
- Intervention effect Chilli yield with 45 kg N ha−1 plus mulch was the same as with 75 kg N ha−1 without mulch.
- Intervention effect Lower irrigation frequency decreased chilli ascorbic acid content.
- Intervention effect Chilli ascorbic acid content was significantly higher without mulch.