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2001
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Iju/itaogbolu,
Akure North Local Government Area, Ondo State, Nigeria
(Department of Agriculture, Ondo State, Nigeria)
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Variety:
Amaranthus cruentus
Planting
date: late season of 2000
Soil
type:
unknown
Replications:
three
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Vitazyme
application: a seed treatment only with 5%
Vitazyme, air dried before planting
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Vitazyme
application significantly improved plant height, leaf number per
plant, leaf area per plant, and fresh shoot weight above the
control treatment. [No data is available.]
Comments:
Vitazyme applied to the amaranthus seeds only before planting
produced significant growth stimulation effects throughout the
6-week growing period. Especially noticeable was the
effect of Vitazyme to initiate more efficient fertilizer
utilization, making plant height, leaf number, leaf area, shoot
weight, and plant biomass as great with the 100 kg/ha NPK level
as with the 200 kg/ha NPK treatment with no Vitazyme. This
effect of encouraging more efficient nutrient use is especially
important for countries such as Nigeria where nutrient
applications, because of high costs, may be suboptimal, but
where Vitazyme can increase fertilizer effectiveness so the
farmer can approach optimum yields in spite of this reduced
application rate.
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