Claim · model-written summary
At system level, zero tillage with sprinkler irrigation increased WUE by 59.2% over conventional practice.
- Treatment
- ZT with sprinkler irrigation (at branch and pod formation)e7
- Outcome
- WUEe7
- Direction
- increasede7
- Value
- 59.2%e7
- Comparator
- conventional practicee7
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Verbatim
e0“in a maize (Zea mays L.) and field pea (Pisum sativum L.) cropping system”
e7“In a system perspective, ZT with sprinkler irrigation (at branch and pod formation) increased 59.2% WUE and 75.6% WP than conventional practice”
Title
Raghavendra Singh; C. P. Nath; C. S. Praharaj; et al. Scientific Reports 2026. doi:10.1038/s41598-026-39809-5
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Zero tillage with sprinkler irrigation at branching and pod formation increased field pea yield by 70% compared with conventional tillage and flood irrigation.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage with sprinkler irrigation at branching and pod formation increased maize yield by 33.1% compared with conventional tillage and flood irrigation.
- Association Zero tillage with sprinkler irrigation gave 18.8% higher system productivity than conventional tillage.
- Association Zero tillage with sprinkler irrigation gave 6.7% higher system productivity than flood irrigation.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage gave an additional net benefit of INR 45,912 compared with conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Sprinkler irrigation gave an additional benefit of INR 13,903 compared with flood irrigation.
- Intervention effect Reduced tillage intensity significantly increased water-use efficiency and water productivity compared with conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage with sprinkler irrigation reduced consumptive water use compared with conventional practice.
- Intervention effect At system level, zero tillage with sprinkler irrigation increased WP by 75.6% over conventional practice.
- Recommendation Conservation tillage with micro-irrigation can be adopted in pulse-based cropping systems in arid and semi-arid regions.
- Association Tillage practices ranked ZT > RT > CT for productivity of both crops.