Abstract
Abstract Rainfall variability, low soil organic matter content, and costly inorganic fertilizers are the major agricultural constraints in Sub‐Saharan Africa. Integrated use of compost and manure is essential for sustaining soil fertility and increasing crop productivity. This study was conducted to evaluate the combined effects of compost and animal manure on mungbean growth and yield. The 12 treatments consisted of control, recommended dose of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium (NPK), 5 ton ha −1 of compost, 10 ton ha −1 of poultry, 10 ton ha −1 of cattle, and 10 ton ha −1 of sheep manure, and six combinations of organic amendments with 50% of their applied rate alone. These treatments were laid out in a randomized complete block design with six replications. Application of cattle manure at 10 ton ha −1 significantly increased mungbean seed yield by 66% and 84% compared to the recommended rate of NPK and control treatments, respectively. Similar observations were made on stem diameter, total pod weight, and number of seeds per pod. Plants amended with compost had the highest number of ramifications and number of pods than NPK fertilized plants, which recorded (9±) ramifications and (27±) pods per plant. On average, integrated use of 5 ton ha −1 of poultry manure + 5 ton ha −1 of cattle manure had the highest soil plant analysis development values, though not significantly different from NPK fertilizers. These results suggest that application of organic amendments could be an alternative to costly and inaccessible inorganic fertilizers for improving mungbean productivity under low‐input agriculture systems.
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Claims 6
Claim · model-written summary
Cattle manure at 10 ton/ha significantly increased mungbean seed yield by 66% relative to the recommended NPK rate.
- Taxon
- mungbean
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Vigna radiatae1 - Treatment
- Application of cattle manuree0
- Outcome
- seed yielde1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Value
- 66%e1
- Comparator
- recommended rate of NPKe1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
e0“Application of cattle manure”
e1“significantly increased mungbean seed yield by 66% and 84% compared to the recommended rate of NPK and control treatments, respectively”
Claim · model-written summary
Cattle manure at 10 ton/ha significantly increased mungbean seed yield by 84% relative to the control.
- Taxon
- mungbeanVigna radiatae1
- Treatment
- Application of cattle manuree0
- Outcome
- seed yielde1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Value
- 84%e1
- Comparator
- control treatmentse1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Application of cattle manure”
e1“significantly increased mungbean seed yield by 66% and 84% compared to the recommended rate of NPK and control treatments, respectively”
Claim · model-written summary
Cattle manure similarly affected stem diameter, total pod weight and number of seeds per pod of mungbean.
- Taxon
- mungbeanVigna radiatae1
- Treatment
- Application of cattle manuree0
- Outcome
- stem diameter, total pod weight, and number of seeds per pode2
- Direction
- increaseinferrede2
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Application of cattle manure”
e1“significantly increased mungbean seed yield by 66% and 84% compared to the recommended rate of NPK and control treatments, respectively”
e2“Similar observations were made on stem diameter, total pod weight, and number of seeds per pod”
Claim · model-written summary
Compost-amended mungbean plants had the highest number of ramifications and number of pods compared with NPK-fertilized plants.
- Taxon
- mungbeanVigna radiatae1
- Treatment
- composte3
- Outcome
- number of ramifications and number of podse3
- Direction
- higheste3
- Qualifier
- (9±) ramifications and (27±) pods per plante4
- Comparator
- NPK fertilized plantse3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“significantly increased mungbean seed yield by 66% and 84% compared to the recommended rate of NPK and control treatments, respectively”
e3“Plants amended with compost had the highest number of ramifications and number of pods than NPK fertilized plants”
e4“which recorded (9±) ramifications and (27±) pods per plant”
Claim · model-written summary
Integrated use of organic amendments had the highest soil plant analysis development values, not significantly different from NPK fertilizers.
- Taxon
- mungbeanVigna radiatae1
- Treatment
- integrated usee5
- Outcome
- soil plant analysis development valuese6
- Direction
- higheste6
- Comparator
- NPK fertilizerse6
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“significantly increased mungbean seed yield by 66% and 84% compared to the recommended rate of NPK and control treatments, respectively”
e5“On average, integrated use”
e6“had the highest soil plant analysis development values, though not significantly different from NPK fertilizers”
Claim · model-written summary
Organic amendments could be an alternative to inorganic fertilizers for improving mungbean productivity.
- Taxon
- mungbeanVigna radiatae1
- Treatment
- organic amendmentse7
- Outcome
- improving mungbean productivitye7
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“significantly increased mungbean seed yield by 66% and 84% compared to the recommended rate of NPK and control treatments, respectively”
e7“application of organic amendments could be an alternative to costly and inaccessible inorganic fertilizers for improving mungbean productivity”
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