Claim · model-written summary
Zero tillage increased net returns to Rs. 78,000/- per hectare.
- Treatment
- zero tillagee0
- Outcome
- net returnse0
- Direction
- moree0
- Value
- Rs. 78,000/-e0
- Comparator
- farmers practicee0
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Verbatim
e0“Gross returns (Rs. 93,750/-) and net returns (Rs. 78,000/-) per hectare were more with zero tillage maize compared to farmers practice (Rs. 84,150/-gross returns and Rs. 62,500/-net returns)”
Title
C. RADHA KUMARI; M. JOHN SUDHEER INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES 2016. doi:10.15740/has/ijas/12.1/134-138
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Zero tillage increased cob length to 17.4 cm versus 15.5 cm.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage increased grain weight per plant to 129 g versus 115 g.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage increased grains per cob to 421 versus 385.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage increased 100 grain weight to 26.2 g versus 23.6 g.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage increased grain yield to 6250 kg ha -1, 11.4 percent over farmers practice.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage increased stover yield to 7750 kg ha -1, 6.9 percent over farmers practice.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage increased gross returns to Rs. 93,750/- per hectare.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage increased the cost benefit ratio to 1:5.9 versus 1:3.9.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage reduced cost of cultivation by 27.3 percent.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage improved gross returns by 11.4 percent.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage improved net returns by 24.8 percent.