Abstract
In maize growing technologies, tillage technological operations are the most time-consuming and require the greatest fuel input. Substitution of conventional tillage, involving deep ploughing, by other reduced tillage methods can reduce technological production costs, diminish soil degradation and environmental pollution from greenhouse gas emissions, as well as improve economic competitiveness of agricultural produce. Experiments designed to assess energy and environmental aspects associated with different reduced tillage systems, applied in maize cultivation were conducted at Aleksandras Stulginskis University taking into account Lithuania’s economic and climate conditions. The study involved 5 tillage treatments: deep ploughing (DP, control), shallow ploughing (SP), deep cultivation (DC), shallow cultivation (SC) and no-tillage (NT). Our experimental evidence suggests that with the application of reduced tillage systems it is feasible to reduce fuel consumption by 13-58% and working time input by 8.4% to nearly 3-fold, to reduce the cost price of maize cultivation technological operations, decrease environmental pollution with CO2 gas by 30 to 146 kg ha-1, compared with the deep ploughing.
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Reduced tillage reduced fuel consumption by 13-58% versus deep ploughing.
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- reduced tillage systemse0
- Outcome
- fuel consumptione0
- Direction
- reducee0
- Value
- 13-58%e0
- Comparator
- deep ploughinge0
Zea maysOrganisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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t0“Maize Cultivation”
e0“with the application of reduced tillage systems it is feasible to reduce fuel consumption by 13-58% and working time input by 8.4% to nearly 3-fold, to reduce the cost price of maize cultivation technological operations, decrease environmental pollution with CO2 gas by 30 to 146 kg ha-1, compared with the deep ploughing”
Claim · model-written summary
Reduced tillage reduced working time input by 8.4% to nearly threefold versus deep ploughing.
- Treatment
- reduced tillage systemse0
- Outcome
- working time inpute0
- Direction
- reducee0
- Value
- 8.4% to nearly 3-folde0
- Comparator
- deep ploughinge0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Maize Cultivation”
e0“with the application of reduced tillage systems it is feasible to reduce fuel consumption by 13-58% and working time input by 8.4% to nearly 3-fold, to reduce the cost price of maize cultivation technological operations, decrease environmental pollution with CO2 gas by 30 to 146 kg ha-1, compared with the deep ploughing”
Claim · model-written summary
Reduced tillage reduced the cost price of maize cultivation operations versus deep ploughing.
- Treatment
- reduced tillage systemse0
- Outcome
- cost price of maize cultivation technological operationse0
- Direction
- reducee0
- Comparator
- deep ploughinge0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“with the application of reduced tillage systems it is feasible to reduce fuel consumption by 13-58% and working time input by 8.4% to nearly 3-fold, to reduce the cost price of maize cultivation technological operations, decrease environmental pollution with CO2 gas by 30 to 146 kg ha-1, compared with the deep ploughing”
Claim · model-written summary
Reduced tillage decreased environmental CO2 pollution by 30 to 146 kg ha-1 versus deep ploughing.
- Treatment
- reduced tillage systemse0
- Outcome
- environmental pollution with CO2 gase0
- Direction
- decreasee0
- Value
- 30 to 146 kg ha-1e0
- Comparator
- deep ploughinge0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Maize Cultivation”
e0“with the application of reduced tillage systems it is feasible to reduce fuel consumption by 13-58% and working time input by 8.4% to nearly 3-fold, to reduce the cost price of maize cultivation technological operations, decrease environmental pollution with CO2 gas by 30 to 146 kg ha-1, compared with the deep ploughing”
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