Table 5.
Effect of tillage and crop establishment methods on crop yields in the 5th cropping season; mean values followed by different lower case letters within a column are significantly different at P < 0.05. [RPTR: Puddled random transplanted rice; BCW: Broadcast wheat; LPTR: Puddled line transplanted rice; CTW: Conventional-till wheat; CTMTR: CT machine transplanted rice; ZTW: Zero-till wheat; ZTMTR: Zero-till MTR; SRI: System of rice intensification; SWI: System of wheat intensification; DSR: Direct-seeded rice].
| Treatment | Crop yields (Mg ha−1) |
System productivity (REY, Mg ha−1) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rice | Wheat | Mungbean | ||
| RPTR-BCW | 6.26a | 4.44ab | 0.45c | 12.73ab |
| LPTR- CTW | 6.27a | 4.66ab | 0.52abc | 13.25a |
| CTMTR-ZTW | 5.28bc | 4.72a | 0.47c | 12.12b |
| ZTMTR-ZTW | 4.86c | 4.43ab | 0.64a | 12.09b |
| SRI-SWI | 6.04ab | 4.33b | 0.57abc | 12.88ab |
| CTDSR-ZTW | 5.29bc | 4.71a | 0.62ab | 12.38ab |
| ZTDSR-ZTW | 5.46abc | 4.83a | 0.47bc | 12.46ab |