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. 2019 Apr 15;340:104–114. doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2019.01.001

Table 8.

Rice, wheat and maize grain yield in 2013–2014 and 2014–2015 under different cropping systems, residue management and tillage based crop establishment treatments (Nandan et al., 2018).

Treatment Rice (kg ha−1)
Wheat (kg ha−1)
Maize (kg ha−1)
2013–14 2014–15 2013–14 2014–15 2013–14 2014–15
Cropping system
Rice–wheat 4846 4579
Rice–maize 4752 4532
LSD (p = 0.05) ns ns



Residue management
Residue removal 4609 4489 5022 5117 6903 6852
Residue retention 4989 4623 5288 5657 7617 7323
LSD (p = 0.05)) 122 131 158 160 256 239



Tillage based crop establishment practice
CTPTR–CT 4486 4194 4586 4676 6756 6669
NPTPR–ZT 4602 4190 5071 5512 7168 6914
ZTTPR–ZT 4875 4612 5341 5625 7535 7343
ZTDSR–ZT 5232 5226 5621 5734 7580 7424
LSD (p = 0.05) 224 229 409 396 417 249

ns, non-significant (p > 0.05).