Garden Egg (<i>Solanum melongena</i> L.) Performance under Different Sources of Animal Manure as a Sustainable Alternative Fertilizer for Farmers — Oak Academic Publishing
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Garden Egg (<i>Solanum melongena</i> L.) Performance under Different Sources of Animal Manure as a Sustainable Alternative Fertilizer for Farmers
Department of Agriculture, Berekum East Municipal Assembly, Berekum, Ghana
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School of Agriculture and Technology, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana
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Glenn High School, Winston Salem, NC, USA
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Department of Agriculture, Berekum East Municipal Assembly, Berekum, Ghana
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The University of Environment and Sustainable Development, Somanya, Ghana
1 Department of Agriculture, Berekum East Municipal Assembly, Berekum, Ghana
2 School of Agriculture and Technology, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana
3 Glenn High School, Winston Salem, NC, USA
4 Department of Agriculture, Berekum East Municipal Assembly, Berekum, Ghana
5 The University of Environment and Sustainable Development, Somanya, Ghana
To ensure food security, continuous intensive farming systems with limited fallowing periods and other farming systems like crop rotation have led to poor soil health with extremely low organic matter, especially in tropical regions with high organic matter mineralization. Small-scale farmers in developing countries cannot afford intensive agricultural systems with heavy chemical inputs, which have not improved soil health. Inorganic fertilizers are harmful to the environment, so farmers should use cheap, locally available organic fertilizers like animal manure, which supports organic agricultural systems and soil health. Animal manure is used as a soil amendment to improve soil health, fertility, and crop yields, but data on how different manures affect specific crops is scarce. Poultry, cattle, and goat manure were compared to no fertilizer and mineral fertilizer on garden egg phenology, vegetative growth, and yield. Poultry manure improved garden egg vegetative growth, phenology, yield, and yield components compared to the negative control and the other treatments. Poultry manure yielded the most fruit at 0.921 kg ∙ ha - 1 , followed by cattle and goat manure at 0.709 kg ∙ ha - 1 and 0.698 kg ∙ ha - 1 . In conclusion, poultry manure may be a better alternative to synthetic NPK with yield performance similar to garden eggs and long-term soil health benefits similar to other manure sources.
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