Claim · model-written summary
Cassava companion cropping decreased sweet potato tuber yield by 9%.
- Taxon
- sweet potato
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Ipomoea batatase0 - Treatment
- sweet potato/cassavae0
- Interactor
- cassava
Manihot esculentae0weed - Outcome
- root tuber yield of sweet potatoe0
- Direction
- decreasese0
- Value
- 9e0
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Verbatim
e0“percentage decreases in root tuber yield of sweet potato under companion crops were 9 and 19% by sweet potato/cassava and sweet potato/cassava/cocoyam”
Title
Effects of fertilizer types and different companion crops on the performance of sweet potato
B Osundare Moor Journal of Agricultural Research 2006. doi:10.4314/mjar.v5i2.31804
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- Intervention effect Inorganic fertilizer increased sweet potato leaf area by 182%.
- Intervention effect Organic fertilizer increased sweet potato leaf area by 216%.
- Intervention effect Combined inorganic and organic fertilizer increased sweet potato leaf area by 336%.
- Intervention effect Sweet potato with maize had 23% less leaf area.
- Intervention effect Sweet potato with cassava had 35% less leaf area.
- Intervention effect Sweet potato with cassava and cocoyam had 49% less leaf area.
- Intervention effect Inorganic fertilizer increased sweet potato tuber length by 15%.
- Intervention effect Organic fertilizer increased sweet potato tuber length by 25%.
- Intervention effect Combined fertilizer increased sweet potato tuber length by 39%.
- Intervention effect Cassava companion cropping decreased sweet potato tuber length by 13%.
- Intervention effect Cassava and cocoyam companion cropping decreased sweet potato tuber length by 23%.
- Intervention effect Inorganic fertilizer increased sweet potato tuber yield by 27%.
- Intervention effect Organic fertilizer increased sweet potato tuber yield by 47%.
- Intervention effect Combined fertilizer increased sweet potato tuber yield by 97%.
- Intervention effect Cassava and cocoyam companion cropping decreased sweet potato tuber yield by 19%.