Achieving food security for a rapidly growing population in Nigeria will require intensification of food production on existing cropland through improving soil fertility and agronomic practices. Use of chemical fertilizers has been attributing factor for the deterioration of soil...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2015/14503
This study was carried out at the teaching and Research farm, Department of Horticulture and Landscape Technology, Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic, Unwana, to investigate the integrated effects of organics (lime, Inoculum) and mineral fertilizers, (single superphosphate and muria...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2022/v6i3112
In this study, we investigated the fruit, seed yield and biofuel production potentials of Jatropha curcas in soils fertilized with different rates of rice husk dust (RHD) and NPK 10:10:10. This study took place at the Teaching and Research Farm of the Department of Horticulture a...
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Research Article10.9734/jaeri/2021/v22i130182
The present study investigated the combined effect of rice husk dust (RHD) (0.1.2.3.4 and 5 ton ha-1) and NPK 10:10:10 fertilizer (0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 ton ha-1) arranged factorially in Randomized Complete Block Design(RCBD)on selected soil fertility indices (pH, organic carbon, o...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i230410