Soil cover treatment | Mulch density (t ha−1) | Mean temperature (°C) | |
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Day | Night | ||
Bare soil | 0 | 39.13a | 22.18f |
Elephant grass straw | 2 | 36.69ab | 25.77bcd |
4 | 32.87cd | 23.71e | |
8 | 30.02def | 26.64ab | |
Cashew tree leaves | 2 | 32.01cde | 26.13abc |
4 | 29.41ef | 27.01a | |
8 | 30.31def | 26.56ab | |
Coconut powder (coir dust) | 2 | 34.09bc | 26.25abc |
4 | 31.26cdef | 25.32cd | |
8 | 28.22f | 24.18d |
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Soil cover treatment | Mulch density (t ha−1) | Temperature (°C) | |||||
Mean | Mode | Median | Max. | Min. | S.D. | ||
Bare soil | 0 | 30.4 | 24.0 | 24.6 | 53.1 | 18.4 | 10.2 |
2 | 31.1 | 25.3 | 27.7 | 52.0 | 23.0 | 7.3 | |
Elephant grass straw | 4 | 28.2 | 34.4 | 25.7 | 41.4 | 21.0 | 5.7 |
8 | 28.2 | 29.9 | 27.5 | 35.9 | 24.2 | 2.7 | |
2 | 29.0 | 32.5 | 27.6 | 39.5 | 24.0 | 3.9 | |
Cashew tree leaves | 4 | 28.1 | 29.2 | 27.3 | 34.0 | 25.0 | 2.1 |
8 | 28.3 | 30.6 | 28.1 | 36.2 | 24.6 | 2.8 | |
2 | 30.0 | 23.1 | 26.8 | 47.2 | 23.1 | 5.9 | |
Coconut powder (coir dust) | 4 | 28.2 | 23.1 | 25.6 | 43.0 | 22.4 | 4.5 |
8 | 26.4 | 24.6 | 24.6 | 33.0 | 22.9 | 2.6 | |
Max stands for maximum. Min stands for minimum. S.D. stands for standard deviation. |