TY  - JOUR
AV  - public
A1  - Ajeigbe, H A
A1  - Motagi, B N
A1  - Abdulsalam, S A
TI  - Response of Irrigated Groundnut to Polythene
Mulching on Broad Bed and Furrows during the
Low Temperature Months in Nigeria
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijeab/2.5.53
JF  - International Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biotechnology
SN  - 2456-1878
PB  - Infogain Publication
N1  - The authors would like to thank the International Crops
Research Institute for The Semi-Arid Tropic (ICRISAT),
Nigeria, for providing institutional support. The research
was conducted under the CG Research Program Grain
Legumes.
N2  - Experiments were conductedduring 2014-
2015 and 2015-2016 dry seasons to evaluate the response
of selected groundnut varieties to Polythene Mulching
(PM) onBroad Bed and Furrows (BBF)in the Sudan
Savanna of Nigeria.The treatments consisted of Polythene
mulch vs without mulch (control) and four groundnut
varieties,laid outin Split plot design with four
replications. The result showed that polythene mulch
positively and significantly influenced the phenological
and physiological variables as well as the yield and yield
component of groundnut.Plot withPM emergence at mean
of 8 days earlier and attained days to 50% flowering and
maturity 11 and 10 days earlier than the
control.Polythene mulch had positive and significant
effects on all of the phenological, growth and yield
parameters (100 seed weight,Spad Chlorophyll Meter
Reading, LAI and shelling percentage) of groundnut.
These effects ranged from 5% advantage in Spad
Chlorophyll Meter Reading at 40DAS to 29% at LAI
60DAS.Mean pod yield of the mulch treatments (3401
kgha-1) was 39% higher than the control (2102 kgha-1).
Samnut-24 had highest pod yield of 4009 kgha-1under the
polythene mulch treatments. Polythene mulch also
increased the haulm production by 26% over the control
treatment (4775 vs 3505 kgha-1). The experiment showed
that it is possible to produce high groundnut pod and
haulm yields using PM onBBFin the Sudan Savanna of
Nigeria.
KW  - Broad Bed and Furrow
KW  -  Groundnut varieties
KW  -  Polythene Mulch
KW  -  Temperature and Yield
KW  -  Groundnut
Y1  - 2017///
SP  - 2698
ID  - icrisat10238
EP  - 2705
VL  - 2
IS  - 5
ER  -