Claim · model-written summary
Zero tillage had no significant spillover effect on the next rice crop.
- Taxon
- rice
Oryza sativae0 - Treatment
- ZTe0
- Outcome
- spillover effect on the subsequent rice crope0
- Direction
- did not havee0
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Verbatim
e0“ZT did not have any significant spillover effect on the subsequent rice crop”
Title
Adoption and Impacts of Zero-Tillage in the Rice-Wheat Zone of Irrigated Haryana, India
Olaf Erenstein; R.K. Malik; Surendra Singh 2007
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Observation 34.5% of surveyed rice-wheat farmers adopted zero-tillage wheat.
- Observation A quarter of wheat area in surveyed communities was under zero tillage.
- Observation Disadoption of zero tillage was 10%.
- Association Adopters, non-adopters and disadopters differed significantly in resource bases, with adopters generally most favorable.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage reduced tractor operations from eight to one pass.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage saved six tractor hours per hectare.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage saved 36 liters of diesel per hectare.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage yielded 4.4 tons per hectare, 4.0% above conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage had lower water use.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage significantly increased wheat water productivity indicators.
- Recommendation The authors judged zero-tillage adoption worthwhile because of yield and cost savings.