Table 12 Dehydrogenase and phosphatase in soil as influenced by different ecological intensification treatments.

Treatments	Dehydrogenase activity (mg TPF/g/day)				Phosphatase (mg P-nitrophenol/g/h g⁻¹ h⁻¹)
Treatments	2017	2018	2019	Mean	2017	2018	2019	Mean
T₁ = Farmers’ practice (FP)	26.5^bc	27.4^c	27.1^c	27.00^c	85.3^c	81.5^d	83.6^d	83.47^d
T₂ = Ecological intensification (EI)	32.5^a	33.6^a	36.5^a	34.20^a	103.5^a	112.6^a	116.9^a	111.00^a
T₃ = EI-RTM	29.6^ab	29.3^a-c	32.5^b	30.47^a-c	92.6^bc	99.3^bc	105.6^bc	99.17^b
T₄ = EI-INM	27.6^b	28.5^bc	29.2^c	28.43^bc	91.3^bc	86.5^d	87.9^d	88.57^cd
T₅ = EI-RPM	29.3^ab	29.6^a-c	33.1^ab	30.67^ab	92.3^bc	96.3c	98.5c	95.70^bc
T₆ = EI-RIM	31.3^ab	32.6^ab	34.2^ab	32.70^ab	98.3^ab	99.5^bc	103.5^bc	100.43^b
T₇ = EI-IWM	30.2^ab	31.9^a-c	34.1^ab	32.07^ab	95.6^ab	103.5^bc	109.3^ab	102.80^b
T₈ = EI-IPM	31.3^ab	33.1^ab	33.9^ab	32.77^ab	97.3^ab	106.5^ab	108.5^ab	104.10^ab
LSD (p = 0.05)	3.31	4.25	3.11	4.10	7.61	8.58	8.52	7.69

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

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