Paper · 2006 · Tropical Science

Yields and benefit-costs of cereal-legume rotations in the Guinea savanna of northern Nigeria

SA Rahman

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Abstract

Crop rotation of sorghum and maize with legumes increased grain yields and overall profitability. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Rotating sorghum and maize with legumes increased grain yields.

Taxon
sorghum and maizeSorghumZea mayse0
Treatment
Crop rotation of sorghum and maize with legumese0
Outcome
grain yieldse0
Direction
increasede0
Setting
northern Nigeriat0

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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Sorghum
Sorghum · Taxon · picture of the genus (one of its species)Evelyn Simak · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗
Zea mays
Zea mays · TaxonAkwugo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

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“Crop rotation of sorghum and maize with legumes increased grain yields and overall profitability”

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“Guinea savanna of northern Nigeria”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Rotating sorghum and maize with legumes increased overall profitability.

Taxon
sorghum and maizeSorghumZea mayse0
Treatment
Crop rotation of sorghum and maize with legumese0
Outcome
overall profitabilitye0
Direction
increasede0
Setting
northern Nigeriat0

Not reportedComparator

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Sorghum
Sorghum · Taxon · picture of the genus (one of its species)Evelyn Simak · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗
Zea mays
Zea mays · TaxonAkwugo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

e0

“Crop rotation of sorghum and maize with legumes increased grain yields and overall profitability”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 0–96 · show in text ↑
t0

“Guinea savanna of northern Nigeria”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 59–93 · show in text ↑

Zea mays · yield · SorghumPositive and negative results

9 papers: 5 positive, 4 negative or no effect

4 papers in the same direction as this paper · 3 in the opposite direction · 1 reporting no difference from an alternative

  1. negative
  2. no effect
  3. negative

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Sorghum · yield · Zea mays (maize)Positive and negative results

19 papers: 14 positive, 5 negative or no effect

13 papers in the same direction as this paper · 2 in the opposite direction · 3 reporting no difference from an alternative

  1. negative
  2. negative
  3. no effect

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rotation · yield · SorghumPositive and negative results

47 papers: 36 positive, 11 negative or no effect

35 papers in the same direction as this paper · 11 in the opposite direction

  1. negative
  2. no effect
  3. no effect

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rotation · yield · Zea mays (maize)Positive and negative results

322 papers: 254 positive, 68 negative or no effect

253 papers in the same direction as this paper · 52 in the opposite direction · 16 reporting no difference from an alternative

  1. negative
  2. negative
  3. negative

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