ABSTRACT The need to improve soil fertility and enhance crop production has led to a renewed interest in the use of cocoa pod husk (CPH) in form of biochar, an organic fertilizer, relative to, mineral fertilizer as soil amendment. The deleterious effect of inorganic fertilizer, on the environment, has been enumerated and the global effect of CPH. Field experiment on okra (Abelmoschus esculentus ) fertilized with Biochar. deried from cocoa pod husks (CPH), was conducted at the Cocoa Research I...
AbstractSeveral irrigation systems or methods have been use by many people to efficiently provide water for crop productivity. Drip irrigation system has been a best method so far, supplying water to plant, maximizing water usage, it tends to be cost effective and reduces stress. The field experiment was conducted between January 2017 and March 2017 at the Teaching and Research Farm, Federal University Oye-Ekiti (lkole Campus). The experiment design used entail; two factorial laid in a random...
ABSTRACT A study was conducted to investigate changes that may occur in the soil due to conversion of forest land to plantation, fallow and arable lands. Four locations in two-agro-ecological zones at Ikole Local Government Area, Ekiti State, were used for this study. They are; Itapaji (L 1), Asin (L2); in rainforest agro-ecological zone and Odo-Ogo (L3), Odo-Ayedun (L4) in derived savannah. Soil parameters evaluated include particle size distribution, bulk density, saturated moisture conte...
ABSTRACT Field experiment was conducted to evaluate the combined effects of drip irrigation frequency and different mulching materials on the growth and yield of okra (Abelmoschus esculentus L, Moench). The field experiment was 3 x 3 factorial using Randomized Complete Block Design. The factors were three irrigation intervals (daily, twice and thrice weekly) and three mulches (plastic, grasses and no mulch) and replicated four times. It was observed from the result that okra responded signifi...
ABSTRACT Management practices to adopt in improving the land productivity has always been a challenge. The arable land used for farm practical year students and the fadama used for raising vegetable.s and maize during the dry season are spoken about as not very productive. This is due to the gross lack of information on both the physical and chemical properties of the soils under the different land use types in the Federal University Oye-Ekiti. These land use types continued for over three ...