Claim · model-written summary
RAFIO decreased runoff by 44 to 45% compared with shallow tillage.
- Treatment
- Ridging after first intercultural operation (RAFIO)e2
- Outcome
- runoffe2
- Direction
- decreasede2
- Value
- 44 to 45 per cente2
- Comparator
- shallow tillagee2
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Verbatim
e0“rainfed maize based cropping system”
e2“The Ridging after first intercultural operation (RAFIO) decreased runoff by 25 to 28 per cent over deep tillage and 44 to 45 per cent over shallow tillage”
Title
R Sammauria; ML Jat; SK Bairwa; et al. International Journal of Research in Agronomy 2025. doi:10.33545/2618060x.2025.v8.i9sb.3747
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect Strip cropping of maize-black gram (4:8) increased maize equivalent yield by 98.4% over the maize + black gram intercropping control.
- Intervention effect RAFIO decreased runoff by 25 to 28% compared with deep tillage.
- Intervention effect Deep tillage decreased runoff by 52% over shallow tillage in paired intercropping.
- Intervention effect Deep tillage decreased runoff by 51% over shallow tillage in strip cropping.
- Intervention effect RAFIO increased maize grain equivalent yield by 27 to 41% over deep tillage.
- Intervention effect RAFIO increased maize grain equivalent yield by 36.02 to 47.59% over shallow tillage.
- Intervention effect RAFIO increased net return by 39 to 106% over deep tillage.
- Intervention effect RAFIO increased net return by 67.8 to 156.5% over shallow tillage.
- Intervention effect Deep tillage increased maize yield by 40.4% under strip cropping.
- Intervention effect Deep tillage increased maize yield by 39.4% under inter cropping.
- Observation The maximum share of energy input was 43.02 – 76.69% across moisture conservation practices.
- Observation Tillage accounted for 4.15 – 32.60% of energy input across moisture conservation practices.
- Intervention effect Deep tillage required 6.59 times higher energy input than shallow tillage.
- Intervention effect RAFIO had 49.18% higher energy input in paired intercropping than in strip cropping of maize – black gram (4:8).