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Effects of Spacing, Sett Weight and Fertilizers on Yield and Yield Components in Yams

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

A. M. Gurnah
A. M. Gurnah
Affiliation:
Department of Crop Production, University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana*
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Summary

The effects of plant population on yield and its components were investigated in three experiments in 1969, 1970 and 1971. Increasing populations from 9000 to 36,000 plants/ha. increased yield linearly. The number of tubers produced per plant was not affected by population, but an increase in plant density decreased average tuber weights. Increasing sett weight from 203 to 608 gm increased tuber yields/ha. and the number of tubers per plant but did not affect average tuber weights in two experiments. In 1971 compound fertilizers increased yield up to the highest rates of 90 kg./ha. each of N, P2O5 and K2O respectively.

Type
Research Article
Information
Experimental Agriculture , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , January 1974 , pp. 17 - 22
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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