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

T₁ = Farmers’ practice (FP)

67829^ab

73623^b-d

60621^bc

67,357.7^bc

5.2^a

3.3^ab

2.4

3.6^a

T₂ = Ecological Intensification (EI)

76338^a

83469^a

82011^a

80,606.0^a

1.8^cd

3.2^a-c

2.7

2.6^d

T₃ = EI-RTM

64081^b

68898^c-e

73387^a-c

68,788.7^bc

3.2^bc

3.0^b-d

2.6

2.9c

T₄ = EI-INM

68497^ab

76220^a-c

63293^bc

69,336.7^bc

3.9^b

3.3^ab

2.5

3.2^b

T₅ = EI-RPM

62793^b

80172^ab

76523^ab

73,162.7^ab

3.4^bc

3.5^a

2.8

3.2b

T₆ = EI-RIM

33700^d

66939^de

67407^bc

56,015.3^cd

3.8^bc

2.9^cd

2.5

3.1b^c

T₇ = EI-IWM

39727^d

56591^f

57746^c

51,354.7^cd

1.9^cd

2.8^d

2.3

2.3e

T₈ = EI-IPM

54350^c

63499^ef

60860^bc

59,569.7^c

2.5^c

2.9^cd

2.4

2.6^d

LSD (p = 0.05)

8393

7877

14,373

8,550.5

1.3

0.35

NS

0.26