COMPARASION OF TOMATOE (Lycopersicum esculentum Mill) RESPONSE TO DIFFERENT POULTRY DROPPINGS IN SOUTH – SOUTH ECOLOGICAL ZONE OF NIGERIA
Ogboi. E. and Odeh, H.O
Department of Agricultural Technology
Delta State Polytechnic, Ozoro
Email: ogboied@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
A research work on comparasion of tomatoe response to different poultry dropping in South – South Ecological Zone of Nigeria was conducted in Delta State Polytechnic School of Agriculture demonstration farm Ozoro in two growing seasons between March and June 2015 and 2016 to identify the best poultry dropping manure for the cultivation of tomatoes. Five different treatments comprising of layers dropping, chick dropping, broilers dropping, growers dropping and control were used for the research and these treatment were replicated five times in complete randomized design. The performance parameters observed in this research were the survival rate, the height of tomatoe plant, the branches of tomatoe plant, the number of fruit, and weight (kg) per fruit of tomatoes. At the 3rd month after transplanting, it was observed that all the tomatoes grown in the five different growth media had 100% survival rate; the height ranges between 72cm to 90cm branch number ranges from 19 to 23, fruit number ranges from 60 to 80 per plant and the weight (kg) per fruit ranges from 0.2kg to 0.99 kg. In all the tomatoes grown in Broiler dropping growth medium gave best performance in term of fruit number and fruit weight. Therefore, broiler dropping is recommended for the cultivation of tomatoes in South – South Ecological Zones, Nigeria.
Keywords: Growth Media, Transplanting, Droppings, Ecological Fruit Weight.