Abstract
Organic fertilizer might be able to be used without sacrificing cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp] productivity and contribute to maintaining soil health. A field experiment was conducted during the rainy season months of July to October of 2008 and 2009 to study effects of use of the organic amendments groundnut cake, Pongamia cake, neem cake, mustard cake, cow manure, vermicompost, and poultry manure used alone, and in combinations, on growth, nodulation, yield, soil health, and profitability of cowpea, cv. Utkal Manika, in a sandy loam soil. Use of organic amendments and beneficial bacteria could improve growth, nodulation, yield, and profitability of cowpea and improve soil health. Organic amendments were at least as good as the control (recommended rate of N–P–K fertilizer).
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Claims 4
Claim · model-written summary
Organic amendments and beneficial bacteria could improve growth and nodulation of cowpea compared with the recommended N-P-K control.
- Taxon
- cowpea
Vigna unguiculatae1 - Treatment
- organic amendments and beneficial bacteriae1
- Outcome
- growth, nodulatione1
- Direction
- improvee1
- Qualifier
- coulde1
- Comparator
- control (recommended rate of N–P–K fertilizer)e2
- Setting
- field experimente3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Use of organic amendments and beneficial bacteria could improve growth, nodulation, yield, and profitability of cowpea and improve soil health.”
e2“Organic amendments were at least as good as the control (recommended rate of N–P–K fertilizer).”
e3“A field experiment was conducted during the rainy season months of July to October of 2008 and 2009”
Claim · model-written summary
Organic amendments and beneficial bacteria could improve yield and profitability of cowpea compared with the recommended N-P-K control.
- Taxon
- cowpeaVigna unguiculatae1
- Treatment
- organic amendments and beneficial bacteriae1
- Outcome
- yield, and profitabilitye1
- Direction
- improvee1
- Qualifier
- coulde1
- Comparator
- control (recommended rate of N–P–K fertilizer)e2
- Setting
- field experimente3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Use of organic amendments and beneficial bacteria could improve growth, nodulation, yield, and profitability of cowpea and improve soil health.”
e2“Organic amendments were at least as good as the control (recommended rate of N–P–K fertilizer).”
e3“A field experiment was conducted during the rainy season months of July to October of 2008 and 2009”
Claim · model-written summary
Organic amendments and beneficial bacteria could improve soil health under cowpea cultivation compared with the recommended N-P-K control.
- Taxon
- cowpeaVigna unguiculatae1
- Treatment
- organic amendments and beneficial bacteriae1
- Outcome
- soil healthe1
- Direction
- improvee1
- Qualifier
- coulde1
- Comparator
- control (recommended rate of N–P–K fertilizer)e2
- Setting
- field experimente3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Use of organic amendments and beneficial bacteria could improve growth, nodulation, yield, and profitability of cowpea and improve soil health.”
e2“Organic amendments were at least as good as the control (recommended rate of N–P–K fertilizer).”
e3“A field experiment was conducted during the rainy season months of July to October of 2008 and 2009”
Claim · model-written summary
Organic amendments were at least as good as the recommended N-P-K control for cowpea.
- Taxon
- cowpeaVigna unguiculatae1
- Treatment
- Organic amendmentse2
- Outcome
- at least as goode2
- Direction
- at least as goode2
- Comparator
- control (recommended rate of N–P–K fertilizer)e2
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Use of organic amendments and beneficial bacteria could improve growth, nodulation, yield, and profitability of cowpea and improve soil health.”
e2“Organic amendments were at least as good as the control (recommended rate of N–P–K fertilizer).”
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