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Fertilizer Trials with Sprayed and Unsprayed Cotton in Nigeria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

J. L. Palmer
Affiliation:
Institute for Agricultural Research, Samaru, Nigeria
P. R. Goldsworthy
Affiliation:
Institute for Agricultural Research, Samaru, Nigeria

Summary

The responses of sprayed and unsprayed cotton to ammonium sulphate and single superphosphate at o, 125, and 250 kg./ha. were tested between 1959 and 1964, in three zones of Nigeria. Seed cotton yields of sprayed trials with both fertilizers at 0 and 250 kg./ha. averaged 534 and 768 kg. ha.−1 respectively with significant and positive linear response components in all zones, but significant negative quadratic responses to phosphate in the north and to nitrogen in the south, with a significant interaction in the south. Seed cotton yields of unsprayed trials with both fertilizers at 0 and 250 kg./ha. averaged 305 and 384 kg./ha. respectively with significant positive linear responses to phosphate in the north, to nitrogen in the south and to both in the east and no interactions.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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