Abstract
Afghanistan National Agricultural Sciences and Technology University (ANASTU), Kandahar, Afghanistan during summer season of 2017 to determine the effect of moisture conservation practices and INM on maize growth, productivity, profitability and resource-use efficiency. Planting maize on raised-beds along with wheat crop residues-mulch (3 t/ha) significantly improved the growth, yield attributes, yield, net returns, monetary-efficiency, production-efficiency and water-productivity over flat-bed planting. Applying 50% RDF + FYM (10 t/ha) and 2-foliar sprays of urea (2%) first at knee-high stage and second at tasseling stage, resulted in the highest growth, yield, production efficiency and water productivity, which was in general at par with 100% RDF. These results suggest that summer maize crop in Kandahar and other similar regions may be planted on raised beds mulched with crop residue (3 t/ha) and fertilized using INM approach to enhance productivity, profitability and resource-use efficiency.
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Claim · model-written summary
Raised beds with wheat residue mulch significantly improved maize growth and yield traits versus flat beds.
- Treatment
- raised-beds along with wheat crop residues-mulch (3 t/ha)e0
- Outcome
- growth, yield attributes, yielde0
- Direction
- improvede0
- Comparator
- flat-bed plantinge0
Zea maysOrganisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Planting maize on raised-beds along with wheat crop residues-mulch (3 t/ha) significantly improved the growth, yield attributes, yield, net returns, monetary-efficiency, production-efficiency and water-productivity over flat-bed planting”
Claim · model-written summary
Raised beds with residue mulch significantly improved maize economic returns and efficiencies.
- Treatment
- raised-beds along with wheat crop residues-mulch (3 t/ha)e0
- Outcome
- net returns, monetary-efficiency, production-efficiencye0
- Direction
- improvede0
- Comparator
- flat-bed plantinge0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Planting maize on raised-beds along with wheat crop residues-mulch (3 t/ha) significantly improved the growth, yield attributes, yield, net returns, monetary-efficiency, production-efficiency and water-productivity over flat-bed planting”
Claim · model-written summary
Raised beds with residue mulch significantly improved maize water productivity.
- Treatment
- raised-beds along with wheat crop residues-mulch (3 t/ha)e0
- Outcome
- water-productivitye0
- Direction
- improvede0
- Comparator
- flat-bed plantinge0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Planting maize on raised-beds along with wheat crop residues-mulch (3 t/ha) significantly improved the growth, yield attributes, yield, net returns, monetary-efficiency, production-efficiency and water-productivity over flat-bed planting”
Claim · model-written summary
The combined half RDF, FYM and foliar urea regime produced the highest maize growth and yield.
- Treatment
- 50% RDF + FYM (10 t/ha) and 2-foliar sprays of urea (2%)e0
- Outcome
- growth, yielde0
- Direction
- higheste0
- Comparator
- 100% RDFe0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Applying 50% RDF + FYM (10 t/ha) and 2-foliar sprays of urea (2%) first at knee-high stage and second at tasseling stage, resulted in the highest growth, yield, production efficiency and water productivity, which was in general at par with 100% RDF”
t0“maize”
Claim · model-written summary
The combined nutrient regime produced the highest production efficiency and water productivity, generally comparable to full RDF.
- Treatment
- 50% RDF + FYM (10 t/ha) and 2-foliar sprays of urea (2%)e0
- Outcome
- production efficiency and water productivitye0
- Direction
- higheste0
- Comparator
- 100% RDFe0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Applying 50% RDF + FYM (10 t/ha) and 2-foliar sprays of urea (2%) first at knee-high stage and second at tasseling stage, resulted in the highest growth, yield, production efficiency and water productivity, which was in general at par with 100% RDF”
t0“maize”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend residue mulched raised beds and integrated nutrient management for summer maize.
- Outcome
- planted on raised beds mulched with crop residue (3 t/ha) and fertilized using INM approache0
- Setting
- Kandahar and other similar regionse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“summer maize crop in Kandahar and other similar regions may be planted on raised beds mulched with crop residue (3 t/ha) and fertilized using INM approach to enhance productivity, profitability and resource-use efficiency”
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