Claim · model-written summary
Treatment 100 sprinkler irrigation reduced average yield by more than 20% compared with flooding.
- Taxon
- rice
Oryza sativat0 - Treatment
- Treatment 100e0
- Outcome
- yielde0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Value
- over 20%e0
- Comparator
- flood irrigatione0
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Verbatim
e0“Compared to the average yield for flood irrigation, sprinkler irrigation reduced yield over 20% with Treatment 100”
t0“Rice”
Title
Sprinkler vs. Flood Irrigation in Traditional Rice Production Regions of Southeast Texas
G. N. McCauley Agronomy Journal 1990. doi:10.2134/agronj1990.00021962008200040006x
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Sprinkler irrigation applied more water than estimated flooded-rice evapotranspiration.
- Intervention effect Sprinkler irrigation reduced plant height by 0.09 to 0.28 m compared with flooding.
- Association Heading time varied with cultivar and irrigation treatment.
- Intervention effect Irrigation treatment did not affect harvest timing.
- Intervention effect Irrigation did not influence milled grain.
- Intervention effect Key cultivar yields were reduced by 28% under sprinkler irrigation.
- Mechanism Yield loss under Treatment 100 was attributed to fewer florets and fertile florets per panicle.
- Recommendation The authors conclude sprinkler irrigation is not viable in traditional rice-growing areas with yield losses over 20%.