Abstract
Shortage of fresh water is a worldwide problem, particularly in the tropics. Treated wastewater can be utilized not only as irrigation water but also to serves as a liquid fertilizer. The effect of treated effluent from waste stabilization ponds and equivalent basal fertilizer on growth, yield and nutritive quality of pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum [L.] R.Br.) was investigated under field conditions. The N, P and K levels in treated effluent were monitored over the entire experimental period. Treated effluent significantly increased plant height, number of leaves, leaf area index and the dry matter yield per hectare. By contrast, basal fertilizer did not significantly improve these parameters. Among the nutritive characteristics, only crude protein content was markedly increased by the effluent. Other nutritive qualities remained uninfluenced by both treated effluent and the basal fertilizer. The study demonstrated that treated effluent can be successfully used for unrestricted irrigation in the water deficient tropical and subtropical areas thereby saving huge quantities of fresh water.
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Treated effluent significantly increased pearl millet plant height, leaf number, and leaf area index.
- Taxon
- pearl millet
Cenchrus americanust0 - Treatment
- Treated effluente0
- Outcome
- plant height, number of leaves, leaf area indexe0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Treated effluent significantly increased plant height, number of leaves, leaf area index and the dry matter yield per hectare.”
t0“pearl millet”
Claim · model-written summary
Treated effluent significantly increased pearl millet dry matter yield per hectare.
- Taxon
- pearl milletCenchrus americanust0
- Treatment
- Treated effluente0
- Outcome
- dry matter yield per hectaree0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Treated effluent significantly increased plant height, number of leaves, leaf area index and the dry matter yield per hectare.”
t0“pearl millet”
Claim · model-written summary
Basal fertilizer did not significantly improve the reported growth and yield parameters.
- Taxon
- pearl milletCenchrus americanust0
- Treatment
- basal fertilizere0
- Outcome
- plant height, number of leaves, leaf area index and the dry matter yield per hectaree1
- Direction
- did not significantly improvee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“By contrast, basal fertilizer did not significantly improve these parameters.”
e1“plant height, number of leaves, leaf area index and the dry matter yield per hectare”
t0“pearl millet”
Claim · model-written summary
Effluent markedly increased crude protein content.
- Taxon
- pearl milletCenchrus americanust0
- Treatment
- effluente0
- Outcome
- crude protein contente0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“only crude protein content was markedly increased by the effluent”
t0“pearl millet”
Claim · model-written summary
Other nutritive qualities were uninfluenced by treated effluent.
- Taxon
- pearl milletCenchrus americanust0
- Treatment
- treated effluente0
- Outcome
- Other nutritive qualitiese0
- Direction
- uninfluencede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Other nutritive qualities remained uninfluenced by both treated effluent and the basal fertilizer.”
t0“pearl millet”
Claim · model-written summary
Other nutritive qualities were uninfluenced by basal fertilizer.
- Taxon
- pearl milletCenchrus americanust0
- Treatment
- basal fertilizere0
- Outcome
- Other nutritive qualitiese0
- Direction
- uninfluencede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Other nutritive qualities remained uninfluenced by both treated effluent and the basal fertilizer.”
t0“pearl millet”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend treated effluent for unrestricted irrigation in water deficient tropical and subtropical areas.
- Taxon
- pearl milletCenchrus americanust0
- Outcome
- unrestricted irrigatione0
- Setting
- tropical and subtropical arease0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“treated effluent can be successfully used for unrestricted irrigation in the water deficient tropical and subtropical areas thereby saving huge quantities of fresh water”
t0“pearl millet”
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