Claim · model-written summary
Government expenditure on fertilizer is projected not to decrease with BNI-enabled sorghum.
- Treatment
- adoption of BNI-enabled sorghume1
- Outcome
- government's expenditure on fertilizere7
- Direction
- not decreasee7
SorghumNot reportedComparator
Verbatim
e1“adoption of BNI-enabled sorghum reduced N fertilizer application in the Rabi and Kharif seasons by 8.0 % and 7.4 % and area-scaled/yield-scaled LC-GHG emissions by 15.6 % and 11.2 %, respectively, while increasing farmers' benefits slightly”
e7“The yield and farmers' benefit will increase by 2.5 % and 4.9 % in the Rabi season and by 2.4 % and 6.5 % in the Kharif season, respectively, but the government's expenditure on fertilizer will not decrease”
Title
Ai Leon; Swamikannu Nedumaran The Science of The Total Environment 2024. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.177385
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Intervention effect Adoption of BNI-enabled sorghum reduced N fertilizer application in the Rabi season by 8.0%.
- Intervention effect Adoption of BNI-enabled sorghum reduced N fertilizer application in the Kharif season by 7.4%.
- Intervention effect Adoption of BNI-enabled sorghum reduced area-scaled/yield-scaled LC-GHG emissions in the Rabi season by 15.6%.
- Intervention effect Adoption of BNI-enabled sorghum reduced area-scaled/yield-scaled LC-GHG emissions in the Kharif season by 11.2%.
- Intervention effect Adoption of BNI-enabled sorghum increased farmers' benefits slightly.
- Intervention effect Adoption of BNI-enabled sorghum could reduce government expenditure on urea fertilizer subsidies by 9.1%.
- Observation Many farmers indicated they would not change N fertilizer application even if the yield per N fertilizer application increased.
- Intervention effect Under the scenario with maintained N use, area-scaled/yield-scaled LC-GHG emissions are projected to decrease by 11.3% in the Rabi season (first of the two Rabi values).
- Intervention effect Under the scenario with maintained N use, area-scaled/yield-scaled LC-GHG emissions are projected to decrease by 13.5% in the Rabi season (second of the two Rabi values).
- Intervention effect Under the scenario with maintained N use, area-scaled/yield-scaled LC-GHG emissions are projected to decrease by 8.1% in the Kharif season (first of the two Kharif values).
- Intervention effect Under the scenario with maintained N use, area-scaled/yield-scaled LC-GHG emissions are projected to decrease by 10.2% in the Kharif season (second of the two Kharif values).
- Intervention effect Yield with BNI-enabled sorghum is projected to increase by 2.5% in the Rabi season (first of the two yield values).
- Intervention effect Farmers' benefit with BNI-enabled sorghum is projected to increase by 4.9% in the Rabi season (second of the two benefit values).
- Intervention effect Yield with BNI-enabled sorghum is projected to increase by 2.4% in the Kharif season (first of the two yield values).
- Intervention effect Farmers' benefit with BNI-enabled sorghum is projected to increase by 6.5% in the Kharif season (second of the two benefit values).
- Recommendation The authors recommend that BNI-enabled sorghum can be introduced into countries where fertilizer use is low.