Abstract
A field trial was conducted to study the performance of cocoyam as influenced by organic and inorganic manure during the 2014 cropping season at the Teaching and Research Farm of Samaru College of Agriculture, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Treatments consist of no manure (control), goat manure, cow dung, and poultry manure each at 10 tons ha-1 and 0, 90, 120 and 150 kg NPK ha-1 and laid out in a split plot design with organic manure assigned to the main plots; whereas inorganic manure to the sub plots with three replications. Data were collected on growth and yield parameters; plant height, number of leaves plant -1 , leaf area plant -1 , number of corms plant -1 , corm yield plot-1 and corm yield hectare-1. Results obtained indicated that growth and yield of cocoyam was lowest in control treatments which showed that the organic manure and inorganic manure used in the study especially poultry manure and 150 kg ha -1 of NPK, positively influenced the yield of cocoyam. Poultry manure and150 kg ha 1 of NPK positively increased cocoyam plant height, number of leaves plant-1, corm yield plot-1 and corm yield hectare-1 compared to control treatments. There was no significant effect with respect to leaf area plant-1 and number of corms plant -1 . Based on the findings of the experiments it could be deduced that poultry manure and NPK rate of 150 kg ha-1 promoted higher growth and yield of cocoyam.
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Claims 6
Claim · model-written summary
Control treatments had the lowest cocoyam growth and yield.
- Taxon
- cocoyam
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Colocasia esculentae0 - Treatment
- control treatmentse0
- Outcome
- growth and yielde0
- Direction
- loweste0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
_Colocasia_esculenta_-_Les_Martels%2C_Giroussens_Tarn.jpg?width=500)
Verbatim
e0“growth and yield of cocoyam was lowest in control treatments”
e1“growth and yield of cocoyam was lowest in control treatments”
Claim · model-written summary
Poultry manure increased cocoyam plant height and leaf number versus control.
- Taxon
- cocoyamColocasia esculentae0
- Treatment
- Poultry manuree0
- Outcome
- plant height, number of leaves plant-1e0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- control treatmentse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Poultry manure and150 kg ha 1 of NPK positively increased cocoyam plant height, number of leaves plant-1, corm yield plot-1 and corm yield hectare-1 compared to control treatments.”
e1“Poultry manure and150 kg ha 1 of NPK positively increased cocoyam plant height, number of leaves plant-1, corm yield plot-1 and corm yield hectare-1 compared to control treatments.”
Claim · model-written summary
Poultry manure increased cocoyam corm yield per plot and hectare versus control.
- Taxon
- cocoyamColocasia esculentae0
- Treatment
- Poultry manuree0
- Outcome
- corm yield plot-1 and corm yield hectare-1e0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- control treatmentse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Poultry manure and150 kg ha 1 of NPK positively increased cocoyam plant height, number of leaves plant-1, corm yield plot-1 and corm yield hectare-1 compared to control treatments.”
e1“Poultry manure and150 kg ha 1 of NPK positively increased cocoyam plant height, number of leaves plant-1, corm yield plot-1 and corm yield hectare-1 compared to control treatments.”
Claim · model-written summary
150 kg ha 1 NPK increased cocoyam plant height and leaf number versus control.
- Taxon
- cocoyamColocasia esculentae0
- Treatment
- 150 kg ha 1 of NPKe0
- Outcome
- plant height, number of leaves plant-1e0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- control treatmentse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Poultry manure and150 kg ha 1 of NPK positively increased cocoyam plant height, number of leaves plant-1, corm yield plot-1 and corm yield hectare-1 compared to control treatments.”
e1“Poultry manure and150 kg ha 1 of NPK positively increased cocoyam plant height, number of leaves plant-1, corm yield plot-1 and corm yield hectare-1 compared to control treatments.”
Claim · model-written summary
150 kg ha 1 NPK increased cocoyam corm yield per plot and hectare versus control.
- Taxon
- cocoyamColocasia esculentae0
- Treatment
- 150 kg ha 1 of NPKe0
- Outcome
- corm yield plot-1 and corm yield hectare-1e0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- control treatmentse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Poultry manure and150 kg ha 1 of NPK positively increased cocoyam plant height, number of leaves plant-1, corm yield plot-1 and corm yield hectare-1 compared to control treatments.”
e1“Poultry manure and150 kg ha 1 of NPK positively increased cocoyam plant height, number of leaves plant-1, corm yield plot-1 and corm yield hectare-1 compared to control treatments.”
Claim · model-written summary
Treatments had no significant effect on cocoyam leaf area and corm number.
- Taxon
- cocoyamColocasia esculentat0
- Treatment
- organic and inorganic manuret0
- Outcome
- leaf area plant-1 and number of corms plant -1e0
Not reportedComparatorDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“There was no significant effect with respect to leaf area plant-1 and number of corms plant -1 .”
e1“There was no significant effect with respect to leaf area plant-1 and number of corms plant -1 .”
t0“Performance of cocoyam (Colocosia esculentus L.) as influenced by organic and inorganic manure in Samaru, Zaria, Nigeria”
t1“Performance of cocoyam (Colocosia esculentus L.) as influenced by organic and inorganic manure in Samaru, Zaria, Nigeria”
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