Effect of Adding Different Organic Fertilizers in the Absorption of Some of Nutrient Elements from Soil in Properties of Plant Growth and Yield of Cucumber Plant (Published)
The experiment was conducted in one of the greenhouses of the College of Agriculture – University of Wasit for spring season 2013 to study the effect of adding some organic fertilizers in the growth of cucumber plant . The experiment included 6 Treatments : (T1 comparative treatment ( without any addition ), T2 adding ground for Fertilizer organic Humic plus by 250 g / Dunam , T3 addingthe organic nutrient Vegeamino Foliar with concentration of 1 ml / l , T4 adding compost Humic plus Foliar concentration of 3 g / l , T5 adding organic fertilizer Humic plus Foliar + Vegeamino and T6 adding organic fertilizer Humic plus ground addion + Vegeamino) . The experiment was carried out using a Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with three replications and tested moral differences between averages , according to the less significant moral differences between averages and the probability of 0.05.The results showed a significant superiority of treatment T6 ( Adding Organic Fertilizer Humic plus Add ground + Vegeamino Foliar) in the dry weight of the plant and the percentage of chlorophyll , nitrogen ,and potassium , and holds rate per plant , and the sum total of the plastic house as it was ( 23.99 g , 52.40 % , 4.50% , 2.970 % , 0.641 kg 0.721 kg) , respectively, with no significant difference for treatment T2 in the percentage of chlorophyll , nitrogen , potassium and rate yield per plant sum total of the plastic house which recorded ( 51.19 % , 4.48 % , 2.960 % , 0.585 kg 0.681 kg). From this study , we are conclude that using Organic Fertilizer Humic plus as ground applied + Vegeamino as foliar applied can be enhance from cucumber growth and increase the yield it .
Keywords: Nutrient Elements, Organic Fertilizers, Plant Growth Cucumber Plant, Soil
Quantifying the Productivity of Spent Oil Contaminated Soil Amended With Organic Wastes Using Productivity Index in Abakaliki, South Eastern Nigeria (Published)
A study on quantifying the productivity of spent oil contaminated soil amended with organic wastes using productivity index (PI) was carried out at the Teaching and Research Farm of the Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources Management, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki. The study involved a modification of Pierce et al. productivity index model with simultaneous exclusion of sufficiencies for aeration and electrical conductivity. The applicability and validity of the modified Pierce et al. productivity index model were determined using maize as a test crop. Result showed highly significant (r=0.96 at P<0.01) relationship between PI and grain yield of maize. The general mean PI and grain yield of maize were 0.32 and 0.94 tha-1for the treatments. The mean productivity indices with grain yield of maize were 0.20 and 0.50tha-1, 0.40 and 1.2otha-1, 0.26 and 0.80 tha-1 and 0.42 and 1.3tha-1 for control, burnt rice husk dust, unburnt rice husk dust and saw dust amended soils, respectively. The burnt rice husk dust which had highest prediction of 0.58 also predicted highest grain yield of maize of 2.2tha-1. The grain yield of maize followed productivity index predictions. Organic wastes could be recommended for attenuating problem of spent oil contamination of soil in Abakaliki.
Keywords: Amended, Contamination, Organic wastes, Productivity, Quantifying, Soil, Spent oil.