Can Soil Moisture and Crop Production Be Influenced by Different Cropping Systems?

Title

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Modification needed. Too much use of conjunction. rewrite 

Abstract

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Modification needed. Control missing. Critical results also not present in abstract.

Line 31 – in place of 2018/2019 write year 2018-19

Line 37 – in place of we evaluated. Please mention all dependent in single sentence.

Keywords

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Need modification add intercropping as well in keyword.

Introduction

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An introduction of a research paper should have the following in sequential order to make the paper acceptable.

1.         The basic idea of the topic of the paper

2.         Citation of similar works done by others quoting the references in proper format of the journal.

3.         Line 50 – use Italic font for scientific name of soybean

Line 51-53 – if you are showing percentage change so there is no need to show all numeric values.

Line 66 – use agricultural productivity instead of agricultural production per area

Line 67 – use capital investment instead of initial economic investment

Line 70-78- remove this as it been already explained in previous paragraph

Line 87 – put “also” in between can ------- improve

Line 93-95 – straw mulching should be explained separately.

Line 99 – many studies show eucalyptus is one of water guzzling trees, which results in depilation of underground water table depletion. So how will it save water in your study?

Line 100-102 – explain how inter cropping increase OC% of soil and reduce GHG emission

Line 109 – support the statement with suitable reference

Line 111 – explain which is the prime season for maize and reason for selection off season maize.

Line 114 – also explain importance of ruzigrass in local conditions

Line 117 – in hypothesis also mention other dependents like Thousand grain mass and grain yield.

Materials and Methods

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Need modifications in this section with following suggestions

1.      For proper and authentic results there should be proper and authentic as well as standard methods which are followed internationally.

2.                their are fewer citations in the methodology, it shows that it has been invented by you.

3.      Revise this portion and Use citation to denote the methods and agronomic practice followed. Be precise and focused

4.      Statistical model if applied should be clearly discussed.

5.      Line 122 – Year 2018-19

Line 123-124 – Use Internationally accepted classification

Line 125-133 – the two different crops in different irrigation conditions were not comparable at all. Therefore, why two different crop were selected in the study.

Line134-138 – lack of supporting reference of the reported observations

Line 140-145 – Reparative representation of experiments kindly ignore this and reduce the description of figure 1

Line147-154 – lack of supporting reference of the reported agronomic practice

Line 165-173 – control of the experiment is missing

Line 180 – not mentioned in main text put it in line 171

Line 181-187 – lack of supporting reference of the reported agronomic practice

Line 238 – 241 – Already shown in figure 2. Not necessary.

Line 253-274 – lack of supporting reference of the reported agronomic practice

Line 293-295 – in statistical analysis mentioned 5% Probability level but in results also been compared to 1% and 0.1% level. Why?

Result and Discussion

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Need modifications as suggested in manuscript with following suggestions

1.      The manuscript lacks in proper results and discussion

2.      The discussion is explanation of your results in the light of similar works done by citing them to make your statement valid.

3.      Revise this portion to make your paper relevant. Some more recent references should be incorporated to strengthen the advocated facts.

4.      Line 314-316, 323-327 & 355-360 – already explained in M&M. Remove this and reduce the lengthy description of Figure 5, Figure 6 and Figure 7.

Line 319-321 – from table its shows significant effect on grain yields due to interaction of Straw level and soybean cultivars. But here no significant difference was observed.

Line 341-342 – in table 4 there is no explanation of factor A in main text as shown in table. (A x I x H) I think it S instead of A

Line 351-353 – the interaction Between S x I x H is significant at 1% level. Here is written no effect explain How?

Line 371-379 – the straw level as referred in discussion is very low as compared to selected straw level. Give more comparable reasoning.

Conclusion

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Need modifications

The manuscript includes conclusion of that study, which is not carried out in the paper, modify it.

1.      Manuscript should include the conclusion based on the results of the study shown.

Literature Cited

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Need modifications

1.      In this section for heading follow the term used by the Journal

2.      Recent references are lacking.

3.      Verify and modify the section for similarity of spelling of names and year in citation in text and reference section.