Claim · model-written summary
Cassava intercropped with peanut and vetiver grass contour barriers increased income by 3,300 Yuan/ha.
- Taxon
- cassava
Manihot esculentae3 - Treatment
- intercropped with peanut and planting vetiver grass as contour barrierse3
- Outcome
- incomee4
- Direction
- increasede4
- Value
- 3,300 Yuan/hae4
- Comparator
- check treatmente3
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Verbatim
e3“cassava intercropped with peanut and planting vetiver grass as contour barriers was the best practice: dry soil loss decreased by 28-57% compared to the check treatment”
e4“and increased income by 3,300 Yuan/ha”
Title
Practices and progress in farmer participatory research in China
Huang, Jie; Li, Kaimian; Zhang, Weite; et al. CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) 2001
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Hedgerows of vetiver grass and other tropical grass and legume species decreased dry soil loss by 65-94% compared with the check treatment.
- Intervention effect Cassava intercropped with peanut and vetiver grass contour barriers decreased dry soil loss by 28-57% relative to the check treatment.
- Recommendation Cassava intercropped with peanut and vetiver grass contour barriers was the best practice among those tested.
- Intervention effect Cassava clone SC8013 outyielded the check variety SC205 by 13.1% in farmer-evaluated trials.
- Intervention effect Cassava clone OMR33-10-4 outyielded the check variety SC205 by 34.4% in farmer-evaluated trials.
- Observation No significant differences in soil erosion control were found among cassava varieties.
- Intervention effect Fertilized treatments produced higher cassava yields than unfertilized treatments in farmers’ fields.
- Intervention effect Application of 300 kg/ha of special fertilizer No. 3 increased cassava yield by 33%.
- Intervention effect Application of 300 kg/ha of special fertilizer No. 3 increased cassava gross income by 22%.
- Observation The cassava intercropping practice is widely adopted by farmers at the pilot site in Kongba village, Baisha county, Hainan.