Mineralization Of Nitrogen And Phosphorous From Commonly Used Animal Manure In Tanzania

84 PAGES (15466 WORDS) Soil Science Dissertation

ABSTRACT

A study was conducted at Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Morogoro,

Tanzania during 2007/08. The objective of the study was to evaluate extent of

mineralization of N and P from four commonly used animal manure in Tanzania

namely; poultry, pig, goat and cattle. The study involved a ten week incubation

experiment and a glass house experiment in which okra was used as a test crop .The

experimental design for the two experiments was split plot with manure types as the

main plots and application rates as sub-plots. Results of the incubation experiment

indicated that application of the four manure types significantly (p