Claim · model-written summary
Without fertilizer, garden egg plants took more days to flowering, fruiting and harvesting.
- Taxon
- garden eggs (Solanum melongena)
Solanum melongenat0 - Treatment
- without fertilizere0
- Outcome
- days to flowering, fruiting and harvestinge0
- Direction
- moree0
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Verbatim
e0“plants without fertilizer had significantly reduced height; more days to flowering, fruiting and harvesting”
t0“garden eggs (Solanum melongena)”
Title
T F Insaidoo; S J Quarshie-Sam Journal of Science and Technology (Ghana) 2007. doi:10.4314/just.v27i2.33041
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Without fertilizer, garden egg plants were significantly shorter.
- Intervention effect Without fertilizer, garden egg yields were far below potential yield levels.
- Intervention effect Leucaena mulch increased mean garden egg yield by 21 percent over no mulch in both seasons.
- Observation Garden egg production in the rainy minor season was not profitable.
- Observation In the major season, the half-rate fertilizer and mulch option was the most profitable, with net income of ¢1,215,000 per hectare.
- Observation Full-rate fertilizer with mulch returned net income of ¢1,201,020 per hectare in the major season.
- Observation Full-rate fertilizer without mulch returned net income of ¢819,020 per hectare in the major season.
- Recommendation Leucaena mulch in hedgerow intercropping could reduce garden egg fertilizer requirement by at least half.
- Recommendation The authors recommend hedgerow intercropping with garden eggs as a profitable option for small-scale farmers.