Intervention effectmodel-written summary

At system level, zero tillage with sprinkler irrigation increased WUE by 59.2% over conventional practice.

A claim from Conservation tillage and sprinkler irrigation for sustainable water management and enhanced crop yields in maize and field pea cropping system · 2026

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

At system level, zero tillage with sprinkler irrigation increased WUE by 59.2% over conventional practice.

Taxon
maizeZea mayse0
Treatment
ZT with sprinkler irrigation (at branch and pod formation)e7
Outcome
WUEe7
Direction
increasede7
Value
59.2%e7
Comparator
conventional practicee7

Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingQualifier

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Zea mays
Zea mays · TaxonAkwugo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

e0

“in a maize (Zea mays L.) and field pea (Pisum sativum L.) cropping system”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 616–689
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”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1936–2079

Title

Conservation tillage and sprinkler irrigation for sustainable water management and enhanced crop yields in maize and field pea cropping system

Raghavendra Singh; C. P. Nath; C. S. Praharaj; et al. Scientific Reports 2026. doi:10.1038/s41598-026-39809-5

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324 papers: 284 positive, 40 negative or no effect

283 papers in the same direction as this claim · 39 in the opposite direction · 1 reporting no difference from an alternative

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