THE EFFECT OF DIFFERENT LEVELS OF ORGANIC FERTILIZER ON GROWTH, YIELD AND QUALITY TRAITS OF TWO SESAME VARIETIES (SESAMUM INDICUM L.)
2021
E. Ismail
A field experiment was carried out in the district of Tarmiyah / Baghdad governorate to study the effect Levels of two types of organic fertilizer sheep manure, poultry manure on the growth, yield and oil traits of two sesame varieties Sesamum indicum L. for the Sammer season 2020. The experiment was applied according to the Randomized Complete Block Design (R.C.B.D) with Split Plot System, using two varieties of sesame (Ishtar and Babel) and two types of organic fertilizer (sheep manure, poultry manure) with four levels for each of them are (0, 6, 8 and 12 tons. ha-1), where the best was recorded. The significant superiority of Babel variety in the interferences with the fertilizer level (12 tons. ha-1) for the two types of organic fertilizers mentioned in the traits of each of the plant height, the number of branches in the plant and the percentage of ash, whose mean was (171.54, 183.17 cm and 6.98, 8.41 branches. plant-1 and 4.06, 3.73%) respectively. While the superiority was the best the most significant among the Ishtar variety by interferences with the level (12 tons. ha-1) for the two types of organic fertilizers in the traits of each of the number of capsules per plant (136.13 and 145.24 capsule. plant-1), respectively, the number of seeds per capsule (66.98 and 70.12 seed. capsule-1), respectively, and the weight of 1000 seeds (4.54 and 5.40 gm) respectively and total seed yield (2.69 and 2.81 tons. ha-1), respectively, and oil percentage (57.39 and 60.03%) respectively.
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