Recommended Carrot Production and Handling Practices| Chapter 10 | Emerging Issues in Agricultural Sciences Vol. 6

 The aim concerning this book chapter is to climax salient reward production and handling practices to supply some relevant news to farmers, land-service providers and other players along the carrot profit chain. The chapter is an profit of research that examined the contribution and bettering of cowpea-based Biological Nitrogen Fixation (BNF) in carrot result in the Ashanti Mampong Municipality in the Ashanti Region of Ghana to propel reward production to sustainable levels. Carrot result is a widespread financial activity within the Municipality that supplies vegetables particularly carrot to additional urban centres such as Kumasi inside the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Carrot is a valued exotic salad in Ghana, mostly secondhand in combination with different vegetables in preparing soups, stews, salads and drinks. Demand for carrots thus, remains extreme especially in urban centres. A bigger constraint to carrot result is poor soil potency. Carrot farmers generally knowledge high production costs on account of inorganic manure application. The use of legumes such as cowpea for nitrogen obsession leading to soil fertility augmentation provides a practicable alternative for sustainable crop production. It is imagined that this book chapter will serve as a valuable citation material for actors near the carrot value chain in Ghana and different parts of the world.

Author(s) Details:

Listowell Aditwin Akologo,
Gbewaa College of Education, Box 157, Pusiga-Bawku, UE/R, Ghana.

Harrison Kwame Dapaah,
Akenten Appiah-Menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development (AAMUSTED), Mampong Campus, A/R, Ghana.

Julius Yirzagla,
CSIR-SARI, Nyankpala, Ghana.

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Effect of Rhizobium Inoculation and Rock Phosphate Fertilizer on Soil Chemical Properties under Selected Green Grams Varieties | Chapter 4 | Current Topics in Agricultural Sciences Vol. 8

This study set out to ascertain the impact of Rhizobium and rock phosphate fertiliser application on the chemical characteristics of soil in green gramme types. The investigation was conducted over two seasons at the horticulture research farm of Chuka University (November 2019 - January 2020 and February - April 2020). A randomised full block design was used to set up a two by two by two factorial experiment (RCBD). Three variables were used to create a total of eight treatments that were duplicated three times: Rhizobium inoculation (0 and 100 g ha-1), rock phosphate (0 and 30 kg P ha-1), and variety (N26 and KS20). Soil pH, fixed-N, total nitrogen (TN), exchangeable cations (EC), accessible phosphorus (P), total organic carbon (TOC), and exchangeable potassium (K) were sampled and examined before and after green-grams were planted and harvested. The 15th edition of GENSTAT was used to analyse the data (P (leq) 0.05). The combined application of rock phosphate at 30 kg P ha-1 and Rhizobium inoculation at 100 kg ha-1 resulted in a significantly (P(leq)0.05) larger improvement in soil chemical characteristics than other treatments, according to results from both seasons. Although the soil pH (7.54), TN (0.58%), TOC (3.45%), P (68.20 ppm), EC (0.95 CmolKg-1), fixed-N (0.50%), and K values were considerably higher for treatment R1P1KS20 (1.75 CmolKg-1). The treatment R0P0N26, on the other hand, produced significantly (P(leq)0.05) lower results in the soil's pH (5.23), TN (0.04%), TOC (1.86%), P (8.76 ppm), EC (0.21 CmolKg-1), and K. (0.58 CmolKg-1). Rhizobium inoculation in green-grams with rock phosphate is therefore a crucial method for enhancing legume nitrogen fixation. With the use of this technology, farmers may replace the nitrogen and phosphorus in their crops in a way that is both efficient and improves soil fertility management. Based on the results, Rhizobium 100g ha-1 and rock phosphate 30 kg P ha-1, as well as the variety KS20, should be included in a sustainable soil fertility management strategy in Tharaka Nithi County.

Author(s) Details:

F. K. Mbaka,
Department of Plant Sciences, Chuka University, P.O.Box 109-60400, Kenya.

H. O. Ndukhu,
Department of Plant Sciences, Chuka University, P.O.Box 109-60400, Kenya.

G. O. Oloo-Abucheli,
Department of Plant Sciences, Chuka University, P.O.Box 109-60400, Kenya.

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