Abstract
Crop production in a rainfed area is constrained by inappropriate management of soil and water by the resource-poor farmers. The present study addresses this issue through integration of practices for soil water conservation (SWC) and soil fertility enhancement as well. Extensive experimentation on wheat-maize was undertaken for two years (2004−2006) on the fields of eight farmers representing two soil types; Rajar (Typic Ustorthent; USDA soil taxonomy) and Guliana (Udic Haplustalf; USDA soil taxonomy) in the Gujar Khan Tehsil of Rawalpindi District, Pakistan. Four treatments consisting of: no SWC +farmer’s rate of fertilizer application (FP), no SWC+improved fertilizer application (IF), SWC practices i.e., deep plowing, bund improvement, plowing across contour+FP (SWC+FP) and SWC+IF. Wheat and maize grain yields in SWC and IF were statistically higher than in the treatments with no SWC and FP, respectively. Compared with the control without any treatment, increase in water use efficiency of both maize and wheat crop was higher in SWC+IF followed by IF alone. On the average, Guliana soil series showed better response to all treatments than Rajar soil. The integrated application of SWC and IF practices increased crop yields in the rainfed area.
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Soil water conservation significantly increased wheat grain yield relative to no conservation.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume0e1
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e0“Wheat and maize grain yields in SWC and IF were statistically higher than in the treatments with no SWC and FP, respectively”
e1“experimentation on wheat-maize”
Claim · model-written summary
Soil water conservation significantly increased maize grain yield relative to no conservation.
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e0“Wheat and maize grain yields in SWC and IF were statistically higher than in the treatments with no SWC and FP, respectively”
e1“experimentation on wheat-maize”
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Improved fertilizer significantly increased wheat grain yield relative to farmer practice.
- Taxon
- wheatTriticum aestivume0e1
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e0“Wheat and maize grain yields in SWC and IF were statistically higher than in the treatments with no SWC and FP, respectively”
e1“experimentation on wheat-maize”
Claim · model-written summary
Improved fertilizer significantly increased maize grain yield relative to farmer practice.
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e0“Wheat and maize grain yields in SWC and IF were statistically higher than in the treatments with no SWC and FP, respectively”
e1“experimentation on wheat-maize”
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SWC plus improved fertilizer gave the greatest wheat water use efficiency increase versus untreated control.
- Taxon
- wheatTriticum aestivume0
- Treatment
- SWC+IFe0
- Outcome
- water use efficiencye0
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- highere0
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- control without any treatmente0
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e0“Compared with the control without any treatment, increase in water use efficiency of both maize and wheat crop was higher in SWC+IF followed by IF alone”
Claim · model-written summary
SWC plus improved fertilizer gave the greatest maize water use efficiency increase versus untreated control.
- Treatment
- SWC+IFe0
- Outcome
- water use efficiencye0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- control without any treatmente0
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e0“Compared with the control without any treatment, increase in water use efficiency of both maize and wheat crop was higher in SWC+IF followed by IF alone”
Claim · model-written summary
Improved fertilizer alone ranked second for wheat water use efficiency increase.
- Taxon
- wheatTriticum aestivume0e1
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e0“increase in water use efficiency of both maize and wheat crop was higher in SWC+IF followed by IF alone”
e1“control without any treatment”
Claim · model-written summary
Improved fertilizer alone ranked second for maize water use efficiency increase.
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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e0“increase in water use efficiency of both maize and wheat crop was higher in SWC+IF followed by IF alone”
e1“control without any treatment”
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Guliana soil gave a better crop response than Rajar soil across treatments.
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e0“Guliana soil series showed better response to all treatments than Rajar soil”
e1“experimentation on wheat-maize”
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