Abstract
A field trial was conductedduring the dry season of 2012 in the Research Farm of the Agricultural Education Unit (Department of Vocational Education), Delta State University, Abraka (latitude 5 0 46'N and longitude 6 0 5'E) within the humid forest of Southern Nigeria. The trial was aimed at assessing the growth and yield of flutedpumpkin in response to application of liquid organic manures made from water hyacinth and various animal manures.The experiment was a randomized complete block design. Five treatments which were replicated three times were used namely; control (P1), water hyacinth alone (P2), water hyacinth + pig manure (P3) , water hyacinth + cow dung (P4) and water hyacinth + poultry manure (P5). Liquid manures made from mixture of animal manure with water hyacinth significantly increased the vine length, branch number and leaf number, shoot fresh marketable yield and dry weight of pumpkin. Higher concentration and uptake of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium was observed in the shoot of the plants which received liquid organic manures. Liquid organic manure made from mixture of poultry manure and water hyacinth out performed others. The study recommends that resource poor vegetable farmers to adopt this technology to improve on the productivity of their vegetables.
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Claims 5
Claim · model-written summary
Mixed animal and water-hyacinth manures increased pumpkin vine length, branch number and leaf number.
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- pumpkine0
- Treatment
- Liquid manures made from mixture of animal manure with water hyacinthe0
- Outcome
- vine length, branch number and leaf numbere0
- Direction
- increasede0
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e0“Liquid manures made from mixture of animal manure with water hyacinth significantly increased the vine length, branch number and leaf number, shoot fresh marketable yield and dry weight of pumpkin”
Claim · model-written summary
Mixed animal and water-hyacinth manures increased marketable shoot yield and dry weight.
- Taxon
- pumpkine0
- Treatment
- Liquid manures made from mixture of animal manure with water hyacinthe0
- Outcome
- shoot fresh marketable yield and dry weighte0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“Liquid manures made from mixture of animal manure with water hyacinth significantly increased the vine length, branch number and leaf number, shoot fresh marketable yield and dry weight of pumpkin”
Claim · model-written summary
Liquid organic manure raised shoot nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium concentration and uptake.
- Taxon
- pumpkint0
- Organ / stage
- shoote0
- Treatment
- liquid organic manurese0
- Outcome
- concentration and uptake of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassiume0
- Direction
- Highere0
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e0“Higher concentration and uptake of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium was observed in the shoot of the plants which received liquid organic manures”
t0“Pumpkin”
Claim · model-written summary
Poultry manure mixed with water hyacinth outperformed other manures.
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e0“Liquid organic manure made from mixture of poultry manure and water hyacinth out performed others”
t0“Pumpkin”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend adopting this manure technology to improve vegetable productivity.
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e0“The study recommends that resource poor vegetable farmers to adopt this technology to improve on the productivity of their vegetables”
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