Claim · model-written summary
FIRB planting significantly increased chickpea root dry weight by 17.6%.
- Taxon
- chickpea
Cicer arietinumt0 - Treatment
- furrow irrigated raised bed (FIRB) plantinge0
- Outcome
- root dry weighte0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 17.6%e0
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Verbatim
e0“nodules number (69%), nodule fresh weight (36.6%), nodule dry weight (31.8%), shoot dry weight (16%) and root dry weight (17.6%) increased significantly following furrow irrigated raised bed (FIRB) planting”
t0“chickpea”
Title
Narendra Kumar; Mukhtiyar Singh; C. S. Praharaj; et al. Journal of Food Legumes 2015
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Intervention effect FIRB planting significantly increased chickpea nodule number by 69%.
- Intervention effect FIRB planting significantly increased chickpea nodule fresh weight by 36.6%.
- Intervention effect FIRB planting significantly increased chickpea nodule dry weight by 31.8%.
- Intervention effect FIRB planting significantly increased chickpea shoot dry weight by 16%.
- Intervention effect 75 cm raised beds significantly increased chickpea branches per plant by 49%.
- Intervention effect 75 cm raised beds significantly increased chickpea pods per plant by 19.3%.
- Intervention effect 75 cm raised beds significantly increased chickpea seed yield by 20.1%.
- Observation 75 cm raised beds had the highest net return, INR 24 057/ha.
- Observation 75 cm raised beds had the highest benefit to cost ratio, 1.98.
- Intervention effect Raised beds improved relative chickpea leaf water content.
- Intervention effect Raised beds improved chickpea water use efficiency.
- Intervention effect Raised beds saved up to 33.3% irrigation water versus flat planting.
- Observation A 75% seed rate yielded a higher net return of INR 20 597/ha.
- Observation A 75% seed rate yielded a higher benefit to cost ratio of 1.87.
- Intervention effect Nodulation, yield attributes and seed yield were similar across seed rates and irrigation levels.
- Recommendation The authors recommend 75 cm raised beds with 75% seed rate for chickpea productivity and profitability in NEPZ.