(Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 2017-12) Yahaya Haruna Rawayau
Poor soils need to be fertilized for optimum crop production in order to
achieve the food security campaigns especially in the developing and underdeveloped
countries. This study was aimed at finding the potential benefits
of organic fertilization for sweet corn grown two marginal soils (Rhu Tapai or
Spodosol and Rasau or Ultisol) as well as the optimum rate of the organic
manure that gives the best crop performance. A 5x2x2 factorial experiment
using Randomly Complete Block Design (RCBD) was conducted in four
replicates at the shade house to find the best organic manure between
chicken manure, cattle manure, horse manure, rice husk biochar and the
control treatment (without amendment) with or without Arbuscular
Mycorrhiza Fungi (AMF) inoculation under two different soil types; Rasau
series soil and Rhu Tapai series soil using Thai super sweet corn as a test
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