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Journal of Agricultural and Crop Research

Research Article | Published August 2021 | Volume 9, Issue 8. pp. 189-197.

doi: https://doi.org/10.33495/jacr_v9i8.21.146

 

The effect of residuals of different legume species on the growth and yield of maize grown at Gombe and Makurdi during the 2020 rainy seasons

 



 

 

Madina P.1*

Nazifi M. I.1

Yusuf R.2

 

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1. Department of Crop Production, College of Agronomy, University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria.

2. Federal College of Horticulture Dadinkowa, Gombe State, Nigeria.


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Citation: Madina P, Nazifi MI, Yusuf R (2021). The effect of residuals of different legume species on the growth and yield of maize grown at Gombe and Makurdi during the 2020 rainy seasons. J. Agric. Crop Res. 9(8):189-197. doi: 10.33495/jacr_v9i8.21.146.

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 Abstract 


The experiment aimed to evaluate the effect of residuals species on the growth and yield of maize grown at Gombe and Makurdi during the 2020 Rainy Season. The treatments used were groundnut, cowpea, soybeans, Bambara nut residuals, and control was used. The treatments were laid in a randomized complete block design with three replications. Sammaize 14 was used for the experiment and the spacing of 20 x 75 cm was adapted for the work. During the investigation, some physiological variables, such as growth, plant height, the number of leaves, stem diameter, and the number of prop roots per plant, were measured. Other characters like number of cobs, cob length, cob girth, and cob weight, Number of seeds per cob, number of grain rows per cob, 100 gains weight, threshing percentage, and grain yield were also recorded. The results of the investigation revealed that maize generally responded to both legume residual intercrop and spacing. All the parameters studies have significantly (P ≤ 0.05) responded to the legumes residual effects, the use of groundnut residual was observed to perform higher in both growth character such as plant height (140.12), the number of leaves (15.45) and the number of pop root per plant(4.42) and grain yield (1610.14kg/ha). Maize grown in Benue outgrows those cultivated in Gombe in yield-related character such as the number of cobs (Benue 2.10, Gombe 1.91), cob length (Benue 11.19, Gombe 10.64) and 100 grains weight (Benue 22.16, Gombe 18.21), and overall yield (Benue 1711.17 kh/ha and Gombe 1507.20). Based on the results obtained it can be suggested that the use of groundnut residual will lead to optimum yield.

Keywords  Legumes   residuals   maize   locations 

 

 

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