Influence Of Poultry Manure on The Management of Cucumber Mosaic Virus Disease on Okra Varieties Under Screenhouse Condition
Ahmed A. Abdullahi
Aminu Mukhtar Saleh
Olowoniwa Folasade Mercy
Abstract
This study was to assess the influence of poultry manure application on the management of Cucumber mosaic virus disease on okra varieties in Dutsin-Ma, Katsina State under screenhouse conditions. The trial was conducted in the 2024 dry season at the Nursery, Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Federal University Dutsin-Ma. Three okra varieties (Clemson spineless, ‘Kahon Balewa’ and ‘Yar Balla’) and poultry manure were arranged in a completely randomised design (CRD) with four replicates. Seedlings were inoculated with the virus at the three-leaf stage, and 2.0 t/ha of poultry manure (PM) was applied by placement method at one-week post-inoculation (WPI) in the PM-treated pots, while no manure was applied on the control pots. Data was collected on disease incidence and severity, number of leaves per plant, plant height (cm), numbers of branches per plant, number of days to 50% flowering, number of pods per plant were also recorded on plant growth and subjected to analysis of variance (ANOVA) using the general linear model (PROC GLM) procedure of SAS (2008). The study shows a significance in poultry manure application in CMV management among the three okra cultivars tested this is therefore recommended to ameliorate the menace in okra production. Although, from the study, PM should be incorporated into soil two weeks before seed sowing to allow proper mineralization. This study can also be tried in the field for large okra production.
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