THE EFFECT OF POULTRY MANURE ON THE GROWTH AND YIELD OF TWO VARIETIES OF TOMATOES (Lycopersicon esculentum)

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THE EFFECT OF POULTRY MANURE ON THE GROWTH AND YIELD OF TWO VARIETIES OF TOMATOES (Lycopersicon esculentum)

ABSTRACT

A field experiment was carried out at the Teaching and Research Farm of the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Benin, Benin City to investigate the effect of different levels of poultry manure on the growth and yield of two varieties of tomatoes. The experiment was laid out in a randomized complete block design (RCBD) with three replications. The treatment composed of four levels of poultry manure (0, 5, 10 and 15 tha-1) and two varieties of tomato (UC82-B and Roma VF). Each replicate had 8 plots for a total of 24 plots. The parameters measured were plant height, leaf area, number of leaves, number of branches, days to first flowering, days to 50% flowering, number of flowers, number of fruit, fruit diameter, fruit length, fruit fresh weight, fruit dry weight, shoot fresh weight and shoot dry weight. The result of this study indicated that poultry manure significantly affected all the parameters measured except plant height. All the parameter measured were increased in Roma VF than in UC82-B except the number of flowers, days to first flowering, fruit length, fruit diameter, shoot fresh weight, fruit dry weight and shoot dry weight where the two varieties were similar. Application of 5 and 10 tha-1 poultry manure were similar and significantly increased fruit fresh weight above the control and 15 tha-1. However, the highest yield was obtained from 5 tha-1 poultry manure with either Roman VF or UC82B which were significantly at par.

CHAPTER ONE

1.0 INTRODUCTION

The tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum) belong to the family of solanaceae. It is one of the most important vegetable in Nigeria and in many parts of the tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world. According to Hussaini et al., (2000) the crop rank first in importance among vegetables in Nigeria. It is grown mainly for its fruits, which is used almost daily in every home.

Tomato is an annual herbaceous plant which takes about 75 – 85 days to attain maturity. The plant may reach a height of 2m depending on the variety. The leaves are large, greenish, deeply cleft, with many leaflets. The leaves are arranged alternatively along the stems. The flowers are pinkish to yellow in contour, borne in clusters of four to six flowers sometimes more, formed on the stems between the leaves. Tomatoes fruits exist in many shapes appearing large and round, oval or elongated, depending on the variety. The fruits may be orange, yellow or red when ripe, usually with numerous kidney or peer shaped, hairy, light brown seeds (Tindall, 1993).

Tomato is a warm season plant that requires temperature of about 20-270c for most cultivars. Excessive rainfall and high relative humidity can be harmful to it. A deep loamy soil well drained rich in organic material with a pH of 6.2 – 6.8 for optimum growth and development. It is a nutritious vegetable with increasing demand in Nigeria. As documented by United States Dietary Allowance (2008) tomato fruit provide 95% water of its edible portion and the remaining 5% compose of miscellaneous compound among which include carotenoids, ascorbic acids, alcohol, insoluble solids (proteins) cellulose, pectins, polysaccharides and inorganic compound which give the fruit its characteristic flavor and aroma. In addition, Micheal (2006) revealed that tomatoes are among the food plants to which moderate level of anti cancer activities is associated. It also contains Vitamin A which is a remedy for night blindness.

Tomato originated in South America, but its cultivation has today spread to nearly all parts of the world. But however, it was introduced to West Africa by the Portuguese in the 16th century. The world’s cultivation of tomato is put to about 4 million hectares of which 63,482 hectares are estimated to be cultivated. In Nigeria, FAO (2010) reported an estimated annual production of 1.7 million tones. But however, this was still far below demand as there was an increasing demand from human consumption.

However, most of the deficits were offset by importation. Although, despite a drive towards increased tomatoes production in Nigeria, an optimum production has not been realized by the framers to meet its demand among consumers.

Generally, tomato production in Nigeria has been low because of low yields obtained by small scale farmers resulting from the use of unimproved local varieties with low yielding capacity which often grown in mixtures and this may prevent exploitation of crop productive capacity, environmental hazards such as drought and incidence of pest and diseases, plant population including soil fertility decline and a host of other factors have also kept tomato yield output relatively low (Adekiya and Ojeniyi, 2002).

The use of inorganic fertilizers alone has not been helpful under intensive Agriculture because it aggregates soil degradation (Sharma and Mittra, 1991). The degradation is brought about by loss of organic matter which consequently results in soil acidity and low crop yields (Ojeniyi, 2000). The quantity of soil organic matter depends on the quality of organic material which can be introduced into the soil either by natural returns through roots, stubbles, sloughed-off root nodules and root exudates or by artificial application in the form of organic fertilizer such as poultry manures. (Agboola and Omueti, 1982). Poultry manure is an important means of maintaining soil fertility status. It is cheap, readily available and more environmentally friendly. Nutrients contained in organic manures are released more slowly and are retained for a longer time in the soil, thereby ensuring long residual effect (Sharma and Mittra, 1991). Inorganic fertilizer on the other hand have high concentration of nutrients and readily available to crops but its use is hampered by its inaccessibility to majority of the farmers due to high cost in developing countries including Nigeria (Webber et al., 1999).

The application of poultry manure was reported Ewulo et al., (2008) to significantly affect tomato plant height, number of branches, root length, number and weight of fruits of tomatoes.

In recognition of the increasing economic importance of tomatoes, intensifying production through the use of improved varieties and organic manure has become imperative.

Most of the varieties available to farmers are local and low yielding, generally sown in mixture with other vegetables or cereals. Therefore, the performance and yield potentials of high yielding varieties such as Roma VF and UC 82B released by NIHORT need to be evaluated to replace the low yielding local varieties currently in use by farmers.

Objective

The present study was conducted to determine the optimum poultry manure rate for these two varieties of tomatoes in rainforest zone of Nigeria.

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THE PROBLEM AND PROSPECTS OF COCOYAM PRODUCTION

ABSTRACT

It is a common practice in Nigeria and other West Africa Countries especially in area lying within the rainforest belt, with thick vegetation cover, the aim of management should be to avoid excessive and inadequate level of farming system and maintains sufficient for planting of cocoyam. The study therefore seeks to examine and appraise the problems and prospects of cocoyam production in our society, a case study of Ovia North East Local Government Area.

TABLE OF CONTENT

CHAPTER ONE

Background of the study

Statement of the problem

Research questions

Purpose of the study

Significance of the study

Scope of the study

Limitation of the study

Definition of terms

CHAPTER TWO

Historical Literature review

CHAPTER THREE       

Research methodology

Research design

Population of the study

Research instrument

Data collection

Statistical techniques

CHAPTER FOUR

Data presentation and interpretation of result

CHAPTER FIVE

Summary, conclusion and recommendation

REFERENCES

QUESTIONNAIRE

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1    BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY

Cocoyam (colocasia spp and xanthosoma spp) is grown in the tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world particularly in Africa for human nutrition, animal feed, and cash income for both farmers and traders (Onwueme and Chales, 1994). Cocoyam is vegetative propagated using the corms and to a lesser extent the cormels. As food for human consumption, the nutritional value parts of cocoyam is primarily caloric (Davis et al, 1992). The underground cormels provides easily digested starch; and the leaves are nutritious spinach like vegetable, which give a lot of minerals, vitamins and thiamine (Tambong et al, 1997).

There are two major types commonly grown in Nigeria namely; colocasia spp and xanthosma spp. In Nigeria, it is regarded as a major crop especially in X2 female headed household. Nigeria is one of the largest producers of cocoyam in the world contributing about 40% of total annual production okinpshectares of land out of the total arable land of 27,900.00 hectares under cocoyam production.

Cocoyam grows in association with other food and tree crops a system mostly practiced by subsistence farmers in Nigeria. The bulk of the production of cocoyam is in South East, Nigeria (Enyinnia, 2001). Cocoyam  is regarded as a major food crop in Nigeria especially in female headed households. Nwabuzor (2001) noted that cocoyam can be consumed in various forms when boiled, fried, pounded or roasted. It can also be processed into chips (“achicha”) which has a long shelf and provides food all year round especially during lean planting season (Asadu, 2006). Cocoyam leaves are also used as vegetable for preparing soup in various part of the world. There is a decline in the yields of cocoyam on the past few years. As population pressure on land continues to increases, the importance of cocoyam in ensuring household food security is given adequate recognition even through the present yield are still below expectation. This could be attributed to a lot of factors such as climate variation, drought, poor cultural practices among cocoyam growers, pest and diseases infestation (Ezenwu, 2010).

Despite the usefulness of cocoyam corms and leaves in human nutrition, its production and processing in Nigeria is faced with a lot of challenges. Some of these challenges are the alarming rate of land degradation and lack of improved varieties for commercial cocoyam and leaf production. Decreasing rainfall and poor soil have also been identified as some of the challenges processing of cocoyam in Nigeria (Osagoe, 2006). Therefore, this study was carried out with the broad objective of ascertaining strategies for improving cocoyam production and processing among women farmers in Edo State, Nigeria.

1.2    STATEMENT OF PROBLEM

In any human endeavour, there are bound to be some obstacle or hindrance in any of achieving exception to this general rule. Hence this research is designed to find out the problem and prospects of cocoyam production in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State.

1.3    PURPOSE OF THE STUDY

The main aim of the study is to examine and appraise the problem and prospects of cocoyam production in our society, a case study of Ovia North East Local Government Area.

    To know the number of farmer producing cocoyam in the local government area.

    To know the type of production system.

    Identifying problem of cocoyam production

1.4    SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

It is a common practice in Nigeria and other West Africa countries especially in area lying within the rainforest belt with thick vegetation cover, the aim of management should be avoid excessive and inadequate level of farming system and maintains enough stock raw materials in period of short supply and anticipate price changes.

1.5    RESEARCH QUESTIONS

This study is centred on planning of cocoyam in our local government council (Ovia North East) with more emphasis on cocoyam production. Survey is a broad discipline that cannot be treated in full in this study. The researcher while trying to obtain information from respondents encountered certain drawback which hindered on farming system.

This investigation had a very limited for the study and they only limited time for the study and they only limited the work.

1.6    SCOPE OF THE STUDY

This study is centered on planting of cocoyam in our local government council (Ovia North East) with more emphasis on cocoyam production. Survey is a broad discipline that cannot be treated in full in this study. The researcher while trying to obtain information from respondents encountered certain drawback which hindered on farming system.

1.8    DEFINITION OF TERMS

Cocoyam: Cocoyam are herbaceous perennial plants belonging to the family araceae and are grown primarily of their edible roots, although all parts of the plant are edible. Cocoyam that are cultivated as food crops belong to either the genus colocasia or the genus xanthosoma and are generally comprised of a large spherical corm (swollen underground storage stem), from which a few large leaves emerge.

Problem: A problem is a road block in a situation, something that sets up a conflict and forces you to find a resolution.

Prospect: A prospect is the possibility that something fabulous will happen. After you graduate top of your class at Harvard, for example, your job prospects look great.

Production: The process of making or growing something for scale or use.

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