Claim · model-written summary
Farmers with enough labour to collect crop residues and follow the crop management steps could maintain maize yields compared with conventional practice.
- Treatment
- crop residues for soil covere4
- Outcome
- yieldse4
- Direction
- no_changeinferrede4
- Comparator
- conventional practicee4
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Verbatim
e2“the maize sowing date”
e4“For the farmers having the human resources to collect enough crop residues for soil cover and follow the steps of the crop management sequences, it was possible to maintain yields compared to the conventional practice”
Title
Kalifa Coulibaly; Baba Ouattara; Souleymane Ouédraogo; et al. Open Journal of Soil Science 2022. doi:10.4236/ojss.2022.128015
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- Intervention effect On-farm, conservation agriculture practices generally gave lower maize yields than conventional practices.