Abstract
Stagnating yield and declining input use efficiency in irrigated wheat of the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) coupled with diminishing availability of water for agriculture is a major concern of food security in South Asia. The objective of our study was to establish an understanding of how wheat yield and input use efficiency can be improved and how land leveling and crop establishment practices can be modified to be more efficient in water use through layering of precision-conservation crop management techniques. The “precision land leveling with raised bed” planting can be used to improve crop yield, water and nutrient use efficiency over the existing “traditional land leveling with flat” planting practices. We conducted a field experiment during 2002-2004 at Modipuram, India to quantify the benefits of alternate land leveling (precision land leveling) and crop establishment (furrow irrigated raised bed planting) techniques alone or in combination (layering precision-conservation) in terms of crop yield, water savings, and nutrient use efficiency of wheat production in IGP. The wheat yield was about 16.6% higher with nearly 50% less irrigation water with layering precision land leveling and raised bed planting compared to traditional practices (traditional land leveling with flat planting). The agronomic (AE) and uptake efficiency (UE) of N, P and K were significantly improved under precision land leveling with raised bed planting technique compared to other practices.
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Claim · model-written summary
Layering precision land leveling with raised bed planting raised wheat yield by about 16.6% relative to traditional practices.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume1 - Treatment
- layering precision land leveling and raised bed plantinge1
- Outcome
- wheat yielde1
- Direction
- highere1
- Value
- 16.6%e1
- Comparator
- traditional practicese1
- Setting
- Modipuram, Indiae2
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“The wheat yield was about 16.6% higher with nearly 50% less irrigation water with layering precision land leveling and raised bed planting compared to traditional practices”
e2“We conducted a field experiment during 2002-2004 at Modipuram, India”
Claim · model-written summary
The same layering treatment used nearly 50% less irrigation water than traditional practices.
- Taxon
- wheatTriticum aestivume1
- Treatment
- layering precision land leveling and raised bed plantinge1
- Outcome
- irrigation watere1
- Direction
- lesse1
- Value
- nearly 50%e1
- Comparator
- traditional practicese1
- Setting
- Modipuram, Indiae2
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“The wheat yield was about 16.6% higher with nearly 50% less irrigation water with layering precision land leveling and raised bed planting compared to traditional practices”
e2“We conducted a field experiment during 2002-2004 at Modipuram, India”
Claim · model-written summary
Agronomic and uptake efficiencies of N, P and K were significantly improved by precision land leveling with raised bed planting compared with other practices.
- Taxon
- wheatTriticum aestivume1
- Treatment
- precision land leveling with raised bed planting techniquee3
- Outcome
- agronomic (AE) and uptake efficiency (UE) of N, P and Ke3
- Direction
- significantly improvede3
- Comparator
- other practicese3
- Setting
- Modipuram, Indiae2
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“The wheat yield was about 16.6% higher with nearly 50% less irrigation water with layering precision land leveling and raised bed planting compared to traditional practices”
e2“We conducted a field experiment during 2002-2004 at Modipuram, India”
e3“The agronomic (AE) and uptake efficiency (UE) of N, P and K were significantly improved under precision land leveling with raised bed planting technique compared to other practices”
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