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Journal of Agricultural and Crop Research

Research Article | Published May 2022 | Volume 10, Issue 2. pp. 23-32.

doi: https://doi.org/10.33495/jacr_v10i2.21.172

 

Evaluation of the effect of Nofosuo compost on the growth of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) and its effect on soil fertility

 



 

 

Pane Jeanne d’Arc Coulibaly1*

Jacques Sawadogo1

Wend-Panga Cédric Ouédraogo2

Angeline Diarra2

Jacqueline Pegedwendé Ouédraogo2

Augustine Leticia Okoko2

Jean Boukari Legma3

 

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1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique, Institute de l’Environnent et de Recherches Agricoles (CNRST/INERA), 01 BP 476 Ouagadougou 01, Burkina Faso.

2. Institut Polytechnique Privé Shalom (IPS) de Ouagadougou, 11 BP 1435 CMS Ouagadougou 11 – Burkina Faso.

3. Université Saint – Thomas - d'Aquin (USTA), Faculté des Sciences et Technologies, 06 BP 10212 Ouagadougou 06, Burkina Faso.


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Citation: Coulibaly PJ, Sawadogo J, Ouédraogo WC, Diarra A, Ouédraogo JP, Okoko AL, Legma JB (2022). Evaluation of the effect of Nofosuo compost on the growth of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) and its effect on soil fertility. J. Agric. Crop Res. 10(2):14-22. doi: 10.33495/jacr_v10i2.21.172.

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 Abstract 


Tomato is a valuable crop production in Burkina Faso and the yield is lost due to decline of soil fertility. This study aimed to evaluate the agro-economic profitability of Nofosuo compost on tomato production and its effects on soil fertility.The study was conducted at Koubri, which is located in the Central region of Burkina Faso. It consisted of seven treatments which were arranged according to the randomized Fisher block design with three replicates.The experiment was conducted under rainfed, bio and mineral fertilizers conditions. The selected tomato variety was F1 Mongal (Lycopersicon esculentum). The applied treatments were: i) T0 (control), ii) T1 (single Nofosuo compost (NC)), iii) T2 (NC + organic fertilizer (OF)), iv) T3 (NC + mineral fertilizer (MF)), v) T4 (NC + OF + MF), vi) T5 (single OF), vii) T6 (single MF). These treatments performance were measured on tomato growth parameters, on yield and yield components, on the economic profitability and on soil fertility. The results revealed that plant height and diameter, the number of ramification, fruits length and width and fresh fruit yield were much improved under Nofosuo compost combined with OF (T2), organic fertilizer alone (T5) and MF (T6). This study underscored therefore the outperformance of these treatments regardless of the others applied (T0, T1, T3 and T4). The three treatments contributed to improve tomato yields up 61.5, 64 and 62% respectively and were found most profitable than Nofosuo compost in single-use. Moreover, T2 and T5 increased more soil chemical properties.

Keywords  Koubri   Nofosuo compost   soil fertility   tomato yield  

 

 

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