Table 9 Organic carbon and available nitrogen in soil as influenced by different ecological intensification treatments.

Treatments	Organic carbon (%)				Available Nitrogen (kg/ha)
Treatments	2017	2018	2019	Mean	2017	2018	2019	Mean
T₁ = Farmers’ practice (FP)	0.46	0.47^a	0.45^b	0.47^b	168.5^bc	157.3^b	158.5^d	161.4^b
T₂ = Ecological intensification (EI)	0.51	0.59^a	0.67^a	0.60^a	196.7^a	236.5^a	272.7^a	235.3^a
T₃ = EI-RTM	0.49	0.53^ab	0.55^ab	0.52^ab	177.5^ab	223.6^ab	261.3^ab	220.8^ab
T₄ = EI-INM	0.52	0.51^ab	0.47^b	0.50^ab	179.5^ab	161.5^b	165.6^d	168.9^b
T₅ = EI-RPM	0.49	0.52^ab	0.57^ab	0.51^ab	165.2^bc	223.6^ab	259.6^a-c	216.1^ab
T₆ = EI-RIM	0.52	0.51^ab	0.55^ab	0.53^ab	171.1 ^bc	219.5^ab	233.6^c	208.1^ab
T₇ = EI-IWM	0.51	0.54^ab	0.64^ab	0.56^ab	164.5 ^bc	224.2^ab	254.5^a-c	214.4^ab
T₈ = EI-IPM	0.51	0.52^ab	0.63^ab	0.55^ab	169.3 ^bc	216.5^ab	243.4^bc	209.7^ab
LSD (p = 0.05)	NS	0.11	0.13	0.12	22.61	27.11	24.31	24.74

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

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