Tomato varieties superiority assessment under organic and inorganic (granular and foliar) fertilization in sandy clay soil
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Published:2023-09-10
Issue:1
Volume:13
Page:1-9
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ISSN:2147-4249
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Container-title:EURASIAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE (EJSS)
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language:en
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Short-container-title:EJSS
Author:
TAMBE Agborante Agbor1, MFOMBEP Priscilla Mebong1, JULİE Defang Taku1, EGBE Leonel Enow1, TABOT Pascal Tabi1, DENGİZ Orhan2ORCID, AGBOR David Tavi3ORCID
Affiliation:
1. Department of Agriculture, Higher Technical Teachers’ Training College Kumba, University of Buea. Cameroon 2. Ondokuz Mayıs University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Samsun, Türkiye 3. Department of Agronomic and Applied Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, University of Buea, Cameroon
Abstract
Tomato is valued for its nutritional importance and contribution to countries' GDP. Despite the importance of tomatoes, tomato cultivation remains a challenge in some cities, particularly Kumba, Cameroon. This results from a vast knowledge gap for a suitable variety and agronomic management practices. Thus this work was set out to investigate the response of three tomato varieties under organic, foliar, and granular inorganic fertilization at the Kumba I subdivision. This work comprised two factors; variety having three levels (Cobra F1, Rio Grande, and Kiara tomato varieties) and fertilization having four levels (control, NPK 20:10:10 granular fertilizer, Foliar NPK 20:10:10 inorganic fertilizer, and Poultry manure) given twelve treatment combinations replicated three times randomly in a factorial design. Data was collected on soil physicochemical properties, plant growth parameters and fruit yield. The results showed that the variety did not significantly affect soil physicochemical properties, but soil physicochemical properties were significantly affected by fertilization. Poultry manure had the best OC (5.22 %), Ntot (1.73 g/kg), and Pavail (14.63 mg/kg), while K was highest (2.93 meq/100g) in NPK 20:10:10 granular fertilization. Rio grande, in combination with poultry manure, had the best plant growth; plant height (77.3 cm), number of branches (17), number of leaves (197), and leaf area (47.1 cm2). Cobra F1, in combination with foliar NPK 20:10:10 granular and poultry manure, had the best fruit yield; 13.42 tha-1 and 13.56 tha-1, respectively while Kiara variety at the control treatment had the lowest yield (8.36 tha-1). Thus Cobra F1 variety in combination with poultry manure yielded the best result from this study and offers the best option for tomato cultivation in the sandy clay soils of Kumba, Cameroon.
Publisher
Eurasian Journal of Soil Sciences
Subject
Plant Science,Soil Science,Environmental Science (miscellaneous),Agronomy and Crop Science
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