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Response of Irrigated Groundnut to Polythene Mulching on Broad Bed and Furrows during the Low Temperature Months in Nigeria

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http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijeab/2.5.53
10.22161/ijeab/2.5.53
 
Title Response of Irrigated Groundnut to Polythene
Mulching on Broad Bed and Furrows during the
Low Temperature Months in Nigeria
 
Creator Ajeigbe, H A
Motagi, B N
Abdulsalam, S A
 
Subject Nigeria
Groundnut
African Agriculture
 
Description Experiments were conductedduring 2014-
2015 and 2015-2016 dry seasons to evaluate the response
of selected groundnut varieties to Polythene Mulching
(PM) onBroad Bed and Furrows (BBF)in the Sudan
Savanna of Nigeria.The treatments consisted of Polythene
mulch vs without mulch (control) and four groundnut
varieties,laid outin Split plot design with four
replications. The result showed that polythene mulch
positively and significantly influenced the phenological
and physiological variables as well as the yield and yield
component of groundnut.Plot withPM emergence at mean
of 8 days earlier and attained days to 50% flowering and
maturity 11 and 10 days earlier than the
control.Polythene mulch had positive and significant
effects on all of the phenological, growth and yield
parameters (100 seed weight,Spad Chlorophyll Meter
Reading, LAI and shelling percentage) of groundnut.
These effects ranged from 5% advantage in Spad
Chlorophyll Meter Reading at 40DAS to 29% at LAI
60DAS.Mean pod yield of the mulch treatments (3401
kgha-1) was 39% higher than the control (2102 kgha-1).
Samnut-24 had highest pod yield of 4009 kgha-1under the
polythene mulch treatments. Polythene mulch also
increased the haulm production by 26% over the control
treatment (4775 vs 3505 kgha-1). The experiment showed
that it is possible to produce high groundnut pod and
haulm yields using PM onBBFin the Sudan Savanna of
Nigeria.
 
Publisher Infogain Publication
 
Date 2017
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10238/1/IJEAB-SEP-2017-52-Response%20of%20Irrigated%20Groundnut.pdf
Ajeigbe, H A and Motagi, B N and Abdulsalam, S A (2017) Response of Irrigated Groundnut to Polythene Mulching on Broad Bed and Furrows during the Low Temperature Months in Nigeria. International Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biotechnology, 2 (5). pp. 2698-2705. ISSN 2456-1878