Relationship of plant density and nitrogen fertilization to maize performance in the southern Guinea savanna of Nigeria
Material type: ArticleLanguage: En Publication details: 1984ISSN:- 0331-7285
- Africa
- Africa south of Sahara
- Anglophone africa
- Cereals AGROVOC
- Crops AGROVOC
- Economic plants
- Feed crops
- Feed grasses
- Fertilizers AGROVOC
- Fertilizing
- Glumiflorae
- Grain crops AGROVOC
- Gramineae
- Grasses
- Grasslands
- Industrial crops
- Monocotyledons
- Oil crops
- Plant genetics and breeding NOT IN AGROVOC
- Plants
- Population
- Starch crops
- Sugar crops
- Vegetation
- West Africa
- 88-043011
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Bibliographies; 7 tables; 1 fig. Summary (En)
Experiments were conducted for three years (1975-1977) at Mokwa and Omu-Aran, in the southern Guinea savanna zone of Nigeria, to evaluate the response of maize (Zea mays L.) to five rates of N (0, 50, 100, 150 and 200 kg/ha) and three plant population densities (24, 48 and 72 thousand plants/ha). Maximum grain yield was obtained with 120 kg N/ha and a population density of 50,000 plants/ha. There was a significant nitrogen plant density interaction at both locations. Nitrogen-use efficiency, calculated as kg of grain per kg of fertilizer N, was highest at a population density of 50,000 and lowest at 24,000 plants/ha
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