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Amaranth is an underutilized crop that is gaining popularity with the possibility of preventing malnutrition. The study aimed to select grain amaranth that can thrive well in different agroecologies in Nigeria. Field experiments were carried out during the raining season of 2012 and 2013 at Vegetable Research Farm of National Horticultural Research...
A field experiment was carried out to assess the growth and yield of bell pepper to different combination ratios of Poultry Manure (PM) and NPK 15:15:15. The experiment was carried out at a research farm of the Department of Agronomy, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. The treatments, consisting of Control (no fertilizer), 100% NPK, 50% NPK + 50% PM, 3...
Clonal propagation is a vegetative technique used in the propagation of plants without seed. This study was designed to compare the response of two cultivars of Fluted pumpkin (Telfaria Occidentalis) cultivation, using three different substrates which includes: Semi Autotrophic Hydroponic, Composted sawdust and sawdust only. There were two treatmen...
The most limiting factor in vegetable production is water, the quality and amount of water play an important role in the growth and yield of vegetables. This study was carried out with the aim to investigate the effects of different irrigation water sources on the growth and yield of Amaranthus cruentus. The experiment was set up in a randomized co...
Fluted pumpkin (Telfairia occidentalis Hook. F), is an under-utilized leafy vegetable cultivated and consumed for its valuable nutrients and minerals playing a crucial role in combating micronutrient deficiencies. This shrub is dioecious, exhibiting distinct differences in sexual morphology. The study aims to contrast the phytochemicals, physico-ch...
Organic farming is known to be the production system where synthetic fertilizers and pesticides are largely or completely avoided, it has been observed recently the rapid growth of the system in the last decades. An experiment was conducted at the Vegetable Research Farm of National Horticultural Research Institute, Ibadan, Oyo state to determine t...
The experiment was conducted to evaluate variability estimates for yield contributing and nutritional traits in 60 tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) hybrids and their parents. The trial was laid out in alpha lattice design and data pertaining to 13 quantitative, six nutritional and four qualitative characters have been presented. The estimates of me...
The experiment was conducted to evaluate variability estimates for yield contributing and nutritional traits in 60 tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) hybrids and their parents. The trial was laid out in alpha lattice design and data pertaining to 13 quantitative, six nutritional and four qualitative characters have been presented. The estimates of me...
This chapter describes the various facets, from agronomy to marketing, of Nigerian root vegetables including garlic, onion, turmeric, ginger and carrot being the world’s most significant and vital root vegetables which have high culinary and medicinal value. The chapter commences with their origin and history, universal spread, production figures,...
Medicinal and nutritional qualities of Indian spinach obviously make it a promising crop for food security in Africa. It exhibits high genetic diversity in its present under-exploited state; therefore, accurate assessment of the existing genetic diversity will be fundamental to its improvement. This study investigated the genetic diversity among tw...
Background: Indian spinach is one of the important underexploited tropical leafy vegetables which have high nutritional and medicinal value. Molecular marker technology has greatly accelerated the process involved in breeding programs for the improvement of various crops and its techniques have been considered to be the most suitable means of estim...
A field experiment was conducted at the National Horticultural Research Institute (NIHORT) Ibadan. The experiment was aimed at determining the growth and development of sesame grown at different spacing in a land previously cultivated with and without mucuna. It was a split plot experiment arranged in a randomized complete block design and was repl...
Tuta absoluta Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), a devastating pest of tomato Lycopersicum esculentum L. native of South American, was reported for the first time in Kano, Nigeria, in June, 2015 and was found to have spread and become established in Abeokuta, Ogun State in September 2015, where it infested plants of the screenhouse tomato project...
Intercropping system of rice (Oryza sativa L.) and okra (Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench) is becoming popular among farmers in Nigeria, but there is little or no information on the appropriate row ratio for intercropping rice with okra. A field experiment was therefore conducted from 2015 to 2017 at Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Ikole Teaching a...
An experiment was conducted at the Vegetable Research Farm of the National Horticultural Research Institute, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, in the rain-forest agro-ecological zone in 2016 and 2017 to determine suitable cropping systems to increase the yield of okra. The seed of okra (Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench), cv. LD-88, was planted at a spa...
The objective of this study was to improve the growth and yield of long cayenne pepper using 10 organic fertilizers. Organic fertilizers including tithonia compost (TC), poultry manure from a battery cage (PMB), poultry manure from dip-litter (PMD), pacesetter organic fertilizer (POF), sunshine organic fertilizer (SOF), ayeye organic fertilizer (AO...
Plant growth can be stimulated by a symbiotic relationship between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and bacteria within the rhizosphere region. These interactions are crucial for increasing soil fertility, which leads to increased productivity and sustainability, as well as food security considering a high level of malnutrition. Six rice varietie...
A field experiment was conducted between May and August, 2016 at the National Horticultural Research Institute (NIHORT), Ibadan to determine varietal performance of staked and unstaked tomato at different spacing. The study was a 3x2x3 split-split-plot experiment fitted into randomized complete block design (RCBD) with four replications. Three vari...
Field experiment was conducted at the Inland Valley (Fadama) Teaching and Research Farm evaluate the effect of foliar spraying of plant extracts as nutrient sources on the yield and yield component of okra. The experiment was arranged in a randomized complete block design (RCBD) with three replications. The trial consists of eight treatments of 10,...
The application of bio-fertilizer is considered as good agricultural practice because it improves the fertility of the soil and plant quality. There are various ways of application mode for bio-fertilizer namely: Soil, Foliar, and seed application. In this study, these three application mode with control was used to study the effects on the biochem...
A field study was carried out in a vegetable research field of the National
Horticultural Research Institute, Ibadan, Nigeria during the late raining
season of 2015 to determine the appropriate okra/legume-based cropping system
that will increase crop yield and farmer’s income. The experiment was
arranged in a randomized complete block design (RCBD...
The objectives of this experiment were to compare different drought tolerance indices for drought tolerance prediction and evaluate thirty accessions of grain amaranth (Amaranthus spp.) for drought tolerance using several dr ought t ole ra nc e indices. Seeds of thirty (30) accessions of grain amaranth collected from National Horticultural Research...
Field experiments were conducted at the National Horticultural Research Institute
NIHORT, Ibadan, Nigeria in 2009 and 2010 to evaluate the effects of fertilizer and
population density on growth and yield parameters of ginger Zingiber officinale Rose.
The fertilizer was applied at the rate of 0, 150, 300, 450 and 600kg NPK 15-15-15/ha,
while the pop...
Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) is a popular fruit vegetable in Nigeria but production is low due to diseases, among the various disease problems associated with tomato production is southern blight caused by Sclerotium rolfsii. This study was carried out to evaluate the efficacy of Aframomum melegueta, Ocimum gratissimum and Cymbopogon citr...
Use of adapted cultivars is necessary to improve productivity of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) to increase yield. This study evaluated 10 commercial hybrid tomatoes for adaptation to a forest–savanna transition agro-ecology against two local varieties as checks at the National Horticultural Research Institute of Nigeria, Ibadan, in the rainy and...
A field experiment was conducted at the National Horticultural Research
Institute (NIHORT) Ibadan. The experiment was aimed at determining the
growth and development of sesame grown at different spacing in a land
previously cultivated with and without mucuna. It was a split plot experiment
arranged in a randomized complete block design and was repl...
Organic fertilization is an environmentally friendly approach of agriculture that enhances
growth and quality yield of bell pepper. Types of organic fertilizers and their rates were tested
for optimum growth and hig
at National Horticultural Research Institute (NIHORT), Ibadan, Nigeria in the wet season of
2007 and 2008. Three organic fertilizer so...
Considerable variation exists in pepper (Capsicum spp.) germplasm, which can be useful in improvement of yield and fruit quality. Evaluation and characterization of variation in pepper is necessary to identify genotypes suitable for use in improvement programs. Accessions of long cayenne pepper (C. frutescens L.) were collected from locations in so...
A field experiment was conducted at National Horticultural Research Institute of Nigeria (NIHORT), Ibadan during wet and dry seasons of 2009 and 2010 respectively to investigate the relationships among agronomic traits of 10 tomato hybrids. Each experiment was laid out in a 2 factorial experiment fitted into 12 Randomized Complete Block Design expe...
Experiment was conducted to determine the variation in oil content, nutrient composition and chemical properties of J. curcas seed obtained from five agro-ecological zones in Nigeria. Samples of J. curcas were collected from Iwo, Ibadan; Kaduna; Egbe in Ekiti; Kano and Bauchi .The oil content, nutrient content and chemical properties were determine...
A field study was conducted to evaluate the effect of time of intercropping melon with rice on growth and yield attributes of component crops in early and late seasons of 2003. The trial consisted of factorial combination of three sowing dates of melon and two rice varieties in a Randomized Complete Block Design with three replications. The results...
A field trial was conducted at the Teaching and Research Farm of the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (latitude 7°15 N and longitude 3°25 E') located in the forest-savanna transition zone of south west Nigeria in 2002 and 2003 to assess the yield and economic potentials of intercropping two cassava morphotypes (TMS 30572, branching and TME 1, no...
