Table 6 Economics of maize as influenced by ecological intensification in maize-chickpea system.

From: Sustainable intensification of climate-resilient maize–chickpea system in semi-arid tropics through assessing factor productivity

Treatments

Net returns (Rs./ ha)

B-C ratio

2017

2018

2019

Mean

2017

2018

2019

Mean

T1 = Farmers’ practice (FP)

67829ab

73623b-d

60621bc

67,357.7bc

5.2a

3.3ab

2.4

3.6a

T2 = Ecological Intensification (EI)

76338a

83469a

82011a

80,606.0a

1.8cd

3.2a-c

2.7

2.6d

T3 = EI-RTM

64081b

68898c-e

73387a-c

68,788.7bc

3.2bc

3.0b-d

2.6

2.9c

T4 = EI-INM

68497ab

76220a-c

63293bc

69,336.7bc

3.9b

3.3ab

2.5

3.2b

T5 = EI-RPM

62793b

80172ab

76523ab

73,162.7ab

3.4bc

3.5a

2.8

3.2b

T6 = EI-RIM

33700d

66939de

67407bc

56,015.3cd

3.8bc

2.9cd

2.5

3.1bc

T7 = EI-IWM

39727d

56591f

57746c

51,354.7cd

1.9cd

2.8d

2.3

2.3e

T8 = EI-IPM

54350c

63499ef

60860bc

59,569.7c

2.5c

2.9cd

2.4

2.6d

LSD (p = 0.05)

8393

7877

14,373

8,550.5

1.3

0.35

NS

0.26

  1. The superscipt letters a, b, c, d indicate significant differences between treatments at p < 0.05.