Abstract
Conservation agriculture (CA) is defined as sustainable agriculture production system comprising a set of farming practices. The experiment was conducted at three districts from 2011 to 2016 at five farmers’ field they considered as replicate. The experiment consisted of five treatments (continuous sole maize, maize bean rotation, maize-bean inter-cropping, bean rotation under CA and farmer practice). Maize yield and yield related traits and soil water data were collected from each site. Soil moisture content under CA practices was higher than the farmer practice. At East-Badawacho and Meskan grain yield was higher by 4 and 8% in CA compared with farmer practice, respectively. Maize bean rotation and sole maize under CA out yielded the farmer practice by 13 and 4%, respectively but inter-cropping had 5% lower grain yield. At Hawassa-Zuriya, CA maize bean rotation had higher yield than farmer practice in 2011 and 2013. Maize-bean inter-cropping, maize bean rotation and sole maize under CA had 10, 8 and 6% higher grain yield than farmer practice, respectively. Common bean grain yield from bean rotation under CA had 2799, 2908, and 3226 kg ha-1, from inter cropping bean grain yield of 817, 1065 and 927 kg ha-1 obtained at East-Badawacho, Hawassa-Zuriya and Meskan districts, respectively. Generally, CA cropping systems had drought stress reduction potential and greater yields compared with farmer practice. Key words: Farmer-practice, sole-maize, rotation, inter-cropping, rift-valley.
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Claim · model-written summary
Soil moisture content was higher under conservation agriculture practices than farmer practice
Zea maysOrganisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Soil moisture content under CA practices was higher than the farmer practice”
e0“Maize yield and yield related traits and soil water data were collected from each site”
Claim · model-written summary
Grain yield was 4 and 8% higher under CA than farmer practice at East-Badawacho and Meskan
- Treatment
- CAe2
- Outcome
- grain yielde2
- Direction
- highere2
- Value
- 4 and 8%e2
- Comparator
- farmer practicee2
- Setting
- East-Badawacho and Meskane2
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e2“At East-Badawacho and Meskan grain yield was higher by 4 and 8% in CA compared with farmer practice, respectively”
e0“Maize yield and yield related traits and soil water data were collected from each site”
Claim · model-written summary
Maize bean rotation and sole maize under CA out-yielded farmer practice by 13 and 4%
- Treatment
- Maize bean rotation and sole maize under CAe3
- Outcome
- yielde3
- Direction
- out yieldede3
- Value
- 13 and 4%e3
- Comparator
- farmer practicee3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e3“Maize bean rotation and sole maize under CA out yielded the farmer practice by 13 and 4%, respectively but inter-cropping had 5% lower grain yield”
e0“Maize yield and yield related traits and soil water data were collected from each site”
Claim · model-written summary
Maize-bean inter-cropping had 5% lower grain yield than farmer practice
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e3“Maize bean rotation and sole maize under CA out yielded the farmer practice by 13 and 4%, respectively but inter-cropping had 5% lower grain yield”
e0“Maize yield and yield related traits and soil water data were collected from each site”
Claim · model-written summary
At Hawassa-Zuriya, CA maize bean rotation had higher yield than farmer practice in 2011 and 2013
- Treatment
- CA maize bean rotatione4
- Outcome
- yielde4
- Direction
- highere4
- Qualifier
- in 2011 and 2013e4
- Comparator
- farmer practicee4
- Setting
- Hawassa-Zuriyae4
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e4“At Hawassa-Zuriya, CA maize bean rotation had higher yield than farmer practice in 2011 and 2013”
e0“Maize yield and yield related traits and soil water data were collected from each site”
Claim · model-written summary
Maize-bean inter-cropping, maize bean rotation and sole maize under CA had 10, 8 and 6% higher grain yield than farmer practice
- Treatment
- Maize-bean inter-cropping, maize bean rotation and sole maize under CAe5
- Outcome
- grain yielde5
- Direction
- highere5
- Value
- 10, 8 and 6%e5
- Comparator
- farmer practicee5
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e5“Maize-bean inter-cropping, maize bean rotation and sole maize under CA had 10, 8 and 6% higher grain yield than farmer practice, respectively”
e0“Maize yield and yield related traits and soil water data were collected from each site”
Claim · model-written summary
Common bean grain yield from bean rotation under CA was 2799, 2908 and 3226 kg/ha
- Taxon
- Common bean
Phaseolus vulgarise6 - Treatment
- bean rotation under CAe6
- Outcome
- grain yielde6
- Value
- 2799, 2908, and 3226 kg ha-1e6
- Setting
- East-Badawacho, Hawassa-Zuriya and Meskan districtse7
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e6“Common bean grain yield from bean rotation under CA had 2799, 2908, and 3226 kg ha-1”
e7“obtained at East-Badawacho, Hawassa-Zuriya and Meskan districts, respectively”
Claim · model-written summary
Common bean grain yield from inter-cropping was 817, 1065 and 927 kg/ha
- Taxon
- Common beanPhaseolus vulgarise6
- Treatment
- inter croppinge0
- Outcome
- bean grain yielde0
- Value
- 817, 1065 and 927 kg ha-1e0
- Setting
- East-Badawacho, Hawassa-Zuriya and Meskan districtse7
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e6“Common bean grain yield from bean rotation under CA had 2799, 2908, and 3226 kg ha-1”
e7“obtained at East-Badawacho, Hawassa-Zuriya and Meskan districts, respectively”
e0“from inter cropping bean grain yield of 817, 1065 and 927 kg ha-1”
Claim · model-written summary
CA cropping systems had drought stress reduction potential compared with farmer practice
- Treatment
- CA cropping systemse7
- Outcome
- drought stress reduction potentiale7
- Direction
- reductione7
- Comparator
- farmer practicee7
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e7“Generally, CA cropping systems had drought stress reduction potential and greater yields compared with farmer practice”
e0“Maize yield and yield related traits and soil water data were collected from each site”
Claim · model-written summary
CA cropping systems had greater yields than farmer practice
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e7“Generally, CA cropping systems had drought stress reduction potential and greater yields compared with farmer practice”
e0“Maize yield and yield related traits and soil water data were collected from each site”
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