Claim · model-written summary
Cowpea co-culture and winter cropping increased maize yield by 6.2–23.5% over maize fallow.
- Treatment
- cowpea co-culture with maize and inclusion of winter crope0
- Outcome
- maize yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 6.2–23.5%e0
- Comparator
- M-Fe0
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Verbatim
e0“cowpea co-culture with maize and inclusion of winter crop increased maize yield by 6.2–23.5% over M-F.”
Title
Raghavendra Singh; Subhash Babu; R.K. Avasthe; et al. International Soil and Water Conservation Research 2020. doi:10.1016/j.iswcr.2020.11.003
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect The maize-cowpea-garden pea system had the highest crop productivity.
- Intervention effect Maize stover and weed biomass mulch increased maize grain yield by 19.1% over no mulch.
- Intervention effect Maize-cowpea-winter crops significantly increased soil available N by 3.2–12.9% versus maize fallow.
- Intervention effect Maize-cowpea-winter crops significantly increased soil available P by 3.6–12.7%.
- Intervention effect Maize-cowpea-winter crops significantly increased soil available K by 1.9–26.3%.
- Intervention effect Maize-cowpea-winter crops significantly increased soil organic carbon by 9.2–16.8%.
- Intervention effect Maize-cowpea-winter crops significantly increased soil microbial biomass carbon by 15.2–43.9%.
- Intervention effect Maize-cowpea-winter crops significantly increased soil dehydrogenase activity by 17.2–42.3%.
- Observation The maize-cowpea-garden pea system reached the maximum net return of US $2460 ha−1.
- Observation The maize-cowpea-garden pea system recorded a benefit to cost ratio of 2.86.
- Observation The maize-cowpea-garden pea system recorded energy use efficiency of 7.9%.
- Intervention effect Maize stover plus weed biomass mulch yielded higher net return of US $1680 ha−1 than no mulch.
- Intervention effect Maize stover plus weed biomass mulch yielded a higher benefit to cost ratio of 2.46 than no mulch.
- Recommendation The authors recommend maize-cowpea-garden pea cropping with maize stover and weed biomass mulch as sustainable intensification.