Assessment of Manure Management Practices and Nitrogen Levels on Soil Total Nitrogen in an Alfisol
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https://doi.org/10.53555/bp.v2i2.149Keywords:
Alfisol,, Cow dung, Management practices,, Total nitrogen,, Urea.Abstract
An experiment was set up to investigate the effects of cow dung subjected to different management
practices and Urea fertilizer on the total nitrogen content of the soil at direct and residual effects in an Alfisol. The studies were conducted at Samaru at two different locations, Institute for Agricultural Research and Samaru College of Agriculture farms (Lat. 11o 11” N and Long. 7o 38” E), located in the Northern Guinea Savanna ecological zone of Nigeria. The treatments and experimental design in the fields comprised of 3 cow dung management practices, 4 storage times and 2 nitrogen levels with a control treatment where no cow dung or urea fertilizer was applied. The study was a factorial experiment, laid out in a randomized complete block design, replicated 3 times. The results showed that there was no single practice or a combination that clearly gave higher values of total nitrogen at both direct and residual effects in the two locations because of the divergent factors affecting the nitrogen release pattern from the organic materials to the soil; among the management practices and
duration of field storage that were examined in this study. However, it was observed that the nitrogen amended (+N) treatments mostly gave significantly (P > 0.05) higher total nitrogen values than the direct evaluation (oN) treatments and the control treatments tends to be lower than treatments where cow dung was added at both direct and residual effects.
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