Korumalı Toprak İşleme Sistemlerinde Yetiştirilen Buğday için Daha Yüksek Verim ve Ekonomik Faydalar

Khawar Jabran,Ashar Aulakh

doi:10.29133/yyutbd.236391

Abstract

Conservation till system can reduce the cost of production; improve yield as well as the economic outputs of a cropping system. Four tillage systems (The conventional tillage, reduced tillage, zero tillage, and deep tillage) were evaluated for their effects on soil organic matter, nutrients concentrations, yield, yield related traits and economic benefits in wheat crop. The experiment was conducted at the Agronomic Research Institute Faisalabad, Pakistan during 2010‑11. Soil analysis carried out towards the harvest of the crop depicted no statistical variation among the experimental units for organic matter as well as phosphorus and potassium concentrations. Wheat sown under conservation till systems [zero till (ZT) and reduced till (RT)] had significantly higher grain yield (4457 and 4449 kgha ‑1 , respectively) than the wheat planted in conventional till system (CT) (4192 kg ha ‑1 ). Although, the highest grain yield (4566 kg ha ‑1 ) was recorded for wheat plots sown after deep tillage, this treatment had lower net returns (US$ 508) than the ones gained in conservation till systems (ZT and RT). ZT and RT systems attained the highest net returns (US$ 558 and 535, respectively) and benefit cost ratio (2.02 and 1.94, respectively). The lowest net returns (US$ 445) and benefit cost ratio (1.72) were recorded for CT system. In conclusion, conservation tillage can be practiced to harness higher wheat grain yields and economic benefits.

Highlights

Wheat is the most grown food crop of the world and being cultivated over all the inhabited continents of the world
Results indicated that the plant height, number of spikelets per spike, productive tillers, 1000-grian weight, biological yield and harvest index were not affected by the different tillage systems (Table 2)
Finding the ways to lower the production cost is inevitable owing to constant increase in diesel, electricity and fertilizer prices especially for the crops like wheat, rice and maize which are inevitable for food security throughout the world (Armah et al 2011; Jabran et al 2014)

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Introduction

Wheat is the most grown food crop of the world and being cultivated over all the inhabited continents of the world. The traditional way of manipulating soils for agriculture entrepreneur includes the intensive cultivation of lands (Erenstein 2010; Usman et al 2010). These intensive cultivations pose deleterious impacts on the soil health and increase the production cost of a crop (Saharawat et al 2010). Several of the ill effects that result from intensive cultivation include soil compaction, nutrients losses, increased carbon losses from the soil and higher cost of production (Farooq et al 2011)

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