Claim · model-written summary
Adding phosphorus to manure brought no further yield increase.
- Taxon
- pearl millet
Cenchrus americanust0 - Treatment
- 10, 20 and 30 kg P ha-1e0
- Outcome
- yielde0
- Direction
- no further increasee0
- Comparator
- 2 t ha-1 of poultry manuree0
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Verbatim
e0“adding 10, 20 and 30 kg P ha-1 to the 2 t ha-1 of poultry manure, no further increase in yield was found”
t0“pearl millet yield in Niger”
Title
Poultry manure and inorganic fertilizer to improve pearl millet yield in Niger
Nouri Maman African Journal of Plant Science 2013. doi:10.5897/ajps12.010
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Surveyed poultry manure application rates were 1600–2300 kg per hectare.
- Intervention effect Two tonnes per hectare poultry manure increased pearl millet grain yield by 56%.
- Intervention effect Two tonnes per hectare poultry manure increased stover yield by 53%.
- Intervention effect Poultry manure with inorganic fertilizer increased grain yield by 117%.
- Intervention effect Poultry manure with inorganic fertilizer increased stover yield by 94%.
- Observation Manure alone had a cost/value ratio of 3.59.
- Observation Adding inorganic fertilizer gave a cost/value ratio of 3.92.
- Recommendation Authors recommend two tonnes per hectare poultry manure for pearl millet production.