Abstract
A field experiment was conducted during 2004 and 2005 cropping seasons to determine effect of different weed control practices on proximate composition, nutrient concentration and nutrient uptake of maize (Zea maysL.) at the Teaching and Research Farm of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Nigeria. Seven treatments were used for the experiment, viz no weeding (control), Primextra (3.0kg a.i./ha), mulching (wood shavings), one-hoe weeding at 3 weeks after planting (WAP), two hoe-weedings at 3 and 7 WAP, cover cropping with melon minus hoe-weeding, cover-cropping with melon plus one hoe-weeding at 3WAP. The seven treatments were laid out in randomized complete block design with four replicates. Results showed that mulched plot with wood shavings had the lowest weed density and highest proximate composition, grain nutrient concentration, ear leaf concentration and nutrient uptake followed by Primextra treated plot .The study recommends that small holder farmers to adopt mulching technique with wood shaving to improve the nutritional quality of maize grain since it does not involve any technical rigor besides signifying a non-chemical weed control.
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Claims 5
Claim · model-written summary
Wood shavings mulch gave the lowest weed density.
- Treatment
- mulched plot with wood shavingse0
- Outcome
- weed densitye0
- Direction
- loweste0
- Comparator
- Primextra treated plote0
Zea maysOrganisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Results showed that mulched plot with wood shavings had the lowest weed density and highest proximate composition, grain nutrient concentration, ear leaf concentration and nutrient uptake followed by Primextra treated plot”
t0“maize”
Claim · model-written summary
Wood shavings mulch gave the highest proximate composition.
- Treatment
- mulched plot with wood shavingse0
- Outcome
- proximate compositione0
- Direction
- higheste0
- Comparator
- Primextra treated plote0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Results showed that mulched plot with wood shavings had the lowest weed density and highest proximate composition, grain nutrient concentration, ear leaf concentration and nutrient uptake followed by Primextra treated plot”
t0“maize”
Claim · model-written summary
Wood shavings mulch gave the highest grain nutrient concentration and ear leaf concentration.
- Treatment
- mulched plot with wood shavingse0
- Outcome
- grain nutrient concentration, ear leaf concentratione0
- Direction
- higheste0
- Comparator
- Primextra treated plote0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Results showed that mulched plot with wood shavings had the lowest weed density and highest proximate composition, grain nutrient concentration, ear leaf concentration and nutrient uptake followed by Primextra treated plot”
t0“maize”
Claim · model-written summary
Wood shavings mulch gave the highest nutrient uptake.
- Treatment
- mulched plot with wood shavingse0
- Outcome
- nutrient uptakee0
- Direction
- higheste0
- Comparator
- Primextra treated plote0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Results showed that mulched plot with wood shavings had the lowest weed density and highest proximate composition, grain nutrient concentration, ear leaf concentration and nutrient uptake followed by Primextra treated plot”
t0“maize”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend wood shavings mulch to improve maize grain nutritional quality.
- Outcome
- adopt mulching technique with wood shavinge0
- Qualifier
- improve the nutritional quality of maize graine0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The study recommends that small holder farmers to adopt mulching technique with wood shaving to improve the nutritional quality of maize grain since it does not involve any technical rigor besides signifying a non-chemical weed control.”
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