Chickpea Yield and Nutrient Efficiency Under Soil Management Practices in Western India

A three-year field experiment assessed the impact of soil surface management practices on chickpea yield, nutrient uptake, and nutrient use efficiency in vertisols of Western India. Treatments included conventional tillage, fresh broad bed furrow, and permanent broad bed furrow with residue mulching. The dataset was authored by Anita Kumawat and is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Compare crop yield performance based on different soil surface management practices described in the experiment.
• Analyze nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium uptake efficiency under tillage and mulching treatments.
• Model the relationship between nutrient use efficiency metrics (like partial factor productivity) and seed yield.
• Evaluate the impact of permanent broad bed furrow with residue mulching on in-situ soil and water conservation.

Strengths

• Results are based on a three-year field experiment, suggesting temporal robustness.
• Specific percentage improvements in partial factor productivity for N, P, and K (11%, 15%, 14%) are reported.
• The study explicitly compares three distinct soil management treatments: CT, FBB, and PBB+CR.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small (14.4 KB), indicating limited scope or summary-level data.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for statistical modeling.

Provenance

Source

Anita Kumawat via figshare.

Collection Method

Field experiment.

Time Range

Covers a three-year experiment.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-11 05:28:06; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Vertisols of Western India.