"The 2010 RUFORUM Biennial Conference was the second in the series. The main objective of the Biennial conferences is to provide a platform for agricultural research for development stakeholders in Africa and beyond to actively exchange findings and experiences, while at the same time learning lessons towards improving performance of the agricultural sector and ultimately people’s livelihoods. The biennial conference is RUFORUM’s most comprehensive meeting for the diversity of stakeholers in agriculture. It is especially dedicated to graduate students and their supervisors, grantees in RUFORUM member universities and alumni. It is a platform for peer review, quality control, mentorship, networking and shared learning. This record contains an extended abstract accepted under the theme agronomy".
Effect of different types of organic fertilizers on growth, quality and yield of tomatoes in sandy soil
Abstract:
This study was conducted in Bara locality during the period
2009-2010 to assess the impact of using different types of
organic fertilizers on tomato yield growing in a sandy soil. Five
treatments were compared, i.e., compost, fresh chicken manure,
fresh cattle manure, fresh chicken + cattle manure and untreated
control. The design of experiment was Randomized Complete
Block Design (RCBD) with three replications. All treatments
resulted into higher tomato yield compared to the control.
Compost fertilizer gave the highest tomato yield of 13.58 t/ha.
Cette étude a été menée dans la localité de Bara au cours de la
période 2009-2010 afin d’évaluer l’impact de l’utilisation de
différents types d’engrais organiques sur le rendement des
tomates dans un sol sablonneux. Cinq traitements ont été
comparés, à savoir, le compost, le fumier de poule frais, le fumier
de bovins frais, le fumier de bovins additionné à celui de poules
et le témoin non traité. La conception de l’expérience a été la
conception de block complet randomisé (RCBD) avec trois
répétitions. Tous les traitements ont entraîné une hausse de
rendement des tomates par rapport au témoin. Le compost a
donné le rendement le plus élevé de tomates de 13,58 t / ha.
Language:
English
Date of publication:
2010
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East Africa
Collection:
RUFORUM Conferences and Workshops
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Open Access
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Printed resource
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Extent:
893-895
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