Abstract
Cocoa, the ‘Food of Gods’ is one of the important plantation crops consumed worldwide and around 40 - 50 million people depend on cocoa for their livelihood. An experiment was conducted during 2010 and 2011 to investigate the impact of N, P and K fertilizers through fertigation on soil microbial population of cocoa at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, India. The study was laid out in randomized block design with 13 treatment combinations. The study shows that, fertigation with 125% recommended fertilizer dose as water soluble fertilizer through fertigation by micro sprinkler irrigation (T10) had the highest soil bacterial population (60.10 × 10-6 CFU g-1), fungal population (16.61× 10-4 CFU g-1) and actinomycetes population (8.07 × 10-3 CFU g-1). The same treatment recorded higher yield characters viz., beans per pod (47.81), bean length (2.47 cm), bean girth (3.57 cm), single bean wet weight (3.15 g), single bean dry weight (1.31 g), dry bean weight per pod (62.23 g), dry bean yield per tree (3273.63 g). Key words: Fertigation, drip irrigation, micro sprinkler irrigation, bacteria, fungi, actinomycetes.
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Claims 10
Claim · model-written summary
T10 had the highest soil bacterial population, 60.10 × 10-6 CFU g-1.
- Taxon
- cocoa
Theobroma cacaot0 - Treatment
- fertigation with 125% recommended fertilizer dose as water soluble fertilizer through fertigation by micro sprinkler irrigation (T10)e0
- Outcome
- soil bacterial populatione0
- Direction
- higheste0
- Value
- 60.10 × 10-6 CFU g-1e0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“fertigation with 125% recommended fertilizer dose as water soluble fertilizer through fertigation by micro sprinkler irrigation (T10) had the highest soil bacterial population (60.10 × 10-6 CFU g-1), fungal population (16.61× 10-4 CFU g-1) and actinomycetes population (8.07 × 10-3 CFU g-1).”
t0“cocoa”
Claim · model-written summary
T10 had the highest fungal population, 16.61× 10-4 CFU g-1.
- Taxon
- cocoaTheobroma cacaot0
- Treatment
- fertigation with 125% recommended fertilizer dose as water soluble fertilizer through fertigation by micro sprinkler irrigation (T10)e0
- Outcome
- fungal populatione0
- Direction
- higheste0
- Value
- 16.61× 10-4 CFU g-1e0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“fertigation with 125% recommended fertilizer dose as water soluble fertilizer through fertigation by micro sprinkler irrigation (T10) had the highest soil bacterial population (60.10 × 10-6 CFU g-1), fungal population (16.61× 10-4 CFU g-1) and actinomycetes population (8.07 × 10-3 CFU g-1).”
t0“cocoa”
Claim · model-written summary
T10 had the highest actinomycetes population, 8.07 × 10-3 CFU g-1.
- Taxon
- cocoaTheobroma cacaot0
- Treatment
- fertigation with 125% recommended fertilizer dose as water soluble fertilizer through fertigation by micro sprinkler irrigation (T10)e0
- Outcome
- actinomycetes populatione0
- Direction
- higheste0
- Value
- 8.07 × 10-3 CFU g-1e0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“fertigation with 125% recommended fertilizer dose as water soluble fertilizer through fertigation by micro sprinkler irrigation (T10) had the highest soil bacterial population (60.10 × 10-6 CFU g-1), fungal population (16.61× 10-4 CFU g-1) and actinomycetes population (8.07 × 10-3 CFU g-1).”
t0“cocoa”
Claim · model-written summary
T10 recorded higher beans per pod.
- Taxon
- cocoaTheobroma cacaot0
- Treatment
- fertigation with 125% recommended fertilizer dose as water soluble fertilizer through fertigation by micro sprinkler irrigation (T10)e1
- Outcome
- beans per pode0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- 47.81e0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The same treatment recorded higher yield characters viz., beans per pod (47.81), bean length (2.47 cm), bean girth (3.57 cm), single bean wet weight (3.15 g), single bean dry weight (1.31 g), dry bean weight per pod (62.23 g), dry bean yield per tree (3273.63 g).”
t0“cocoa”
e1“fertigation with 125% recommended fertilizer dose as water soluble fertilizer through fertigation by micro sprinkler irrigation (T10)”
Claim · model-written summary
T10 recorded higher bean length.
- Taxon
- cocoaTheobroma cacaot0
- Treatment
- fertigation with 125% recommended fertilizer dose as water soluble fertilizer through fertigation by micro sprinkler irrigation (T10)e1
- Outcome
- bean lengthe0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- 2.47 cme0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The same treatment recorded higher yield characters viz., beans per pod (47.81), bean length (2.47 cm), bean girth (3.57 cm), single bean wet weight (3.15 g), single bean dry weight (1.31 g), dry bean weight per pod (62.23 g), dry bean yield per tree (3273.63 g).”
t0“cocoa”
e1“fertigation with 125% recommended fertilizer dose as water soluble fertilizer through fertigation by micro sprinkler irrigation (T10)”
Claim · model-written summary
T10 recorded higher bean girth.
- Taxon
- cocoaTheobroma cacaot0
- Treatment
- fertigation with 125% recommended fertilizer dose as water soluble fertilizer through fertigation by micro sprinkler irrigation (T10)e1
- Outcome
- bean girthe0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- 3.57 cme0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The same treatment recorded higher yield characters viz., beans per pod (47.81), bean length (2.47 cm), bean girth (3.57 cm), single bean wet weight (3.15 g), single bean dry weight (1.31 g), dry bean weight per pod (62.23 g), dry bean yield per tree (3273.63 g).”
t0“cocoa”
e1“fertigation with 125% recommended fertilizer dose as water soluble fertilizer through fertigation by micro sprinkler irrigation (T10)”
Claim · model-written summary
T10 recorded higher single bean wet weight.
- Taxon
- cocoaTheobroma cacaot0
- Treatment
- fertigation with 125% recommended fertilizer dose as water soluble fertilizer through fertigation by micro sprinkler irrigation (T10)e1
- Outcome
- single bean wet weighte0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- 3.15 ge0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The same treatment recorded higher yield characters viz., beans per pod (47.81), bean length (2.47 cm), bean girth (3.57 cm), single bean wet weight (3.15 g), single bean dry weight (1.31 g), dry bean weight per pod (62.23 g), dry bean yield per tree (3273.63 g).”
t0“cocoa”
e1“fertigation with 125% recommended fertilizer dose as water soluble fertilizer through fertigation by micro sprinkler irrigation (T10)”
Claim · model-written summary
T10 recorded higher single bean dry weight.
- Taxon
- cocoaTheobroma cacaot0
- Treatment
- fertigation with 125% recommended fertilizer dose as water soluble fertilizer through fertigation by micro sprinkler irrigation (T10)e1
- Outcome
- single bean dry weighte0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- 1.31 ge0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The same treatment recorded higher yield characters viz., beans per pod (47.81), bean length (2.47 cm), bean girth (3.57 cm), single bean wet weight (3.15 g), single bean dry weight (1.31 g), dry bean weight per pod (62.23 g), dry bean yield per tree (3273.63 g).”
t0“cocoa”
e1“fertigation with 125% recommended fertilizer dose as water soluble fertilizer through fertigation by micro sprinkler irrigation (T10)”
Claim · model-written summary
T10 recorded higher dry bean weight per pod.
- Taxon
- cocoaTheobroma cacaot0
- Treatment
- fertigation with 125% recommended fertilizer dose as water soluble fertilizer through fertigation by micro sprinkler irrigation (T10)e1
- Outcome
- dry bean weight per pode0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- 62.23 ge0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The same treatment recorded higher yield characters viz., beans per pod (47.81), bean length (2.47 cm), bean girth (3.57 cm), single bean wet weight (3.15 g), single bean dry weight (1.31 g), dry bean weight per pod (62.23 g), dry bean yield per tree (3273.63 g).”
t0“cocoa”
e1“fertigation with 125% recommended fertilizer dose as water soluble fertilizer through fertigation by micro sprinkler irrigation (T10)”
Claim · model-written summary
T10 recorded higher dry bean yield per tree.
- Taxon
- cocoaTheobroma cacaot0
- Treatment
- fertigation with 125% recommended fertilizer dose as water soluble fertilizer through fertigation by micro sprinkler irrigation (T10)e1
- Outcome
- dry bean yield per treee0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- 3273.63 ge0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The same treatment recorded higher yield characters viz., beans per pod (47.81), bean length (2.47 cm), bean girth (3.57 cm), single bean wet weight (3.15 g), single bean dry weight (1.31 g), dry bean weight per pod (62.23 g), dry bean yield per tree (3273.63 g).”
t0“cocoa”
e1“fertigation with 125% recommended fertilizer dose as water soluble fertilizer through fertigation by micro sprinkler irrigation (T10)”
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