Sustainable food production through systematic soil analysis and appropriate fertilizer recommendations in some parts of Kebbi State, Nigeria

Abstract

A field study was conducted across some selected local government areas of Kebbi State to evaluate both some fertility and productivity indices in the study areas so as to come up with a better fertilizer and other agricultural practices that will ensure sustainable food production and reduces the cost of agricultural production through appropriate fertilizer recommendations. The finding of this work indicates that in most of the areas studied there were observed low basic plant’s nutrients (NP and K) as well as moisture and higher temperature which are not favorable for the productions of some certain crops for example tomato, wheat and some other vegetables. In some cases, farmers within these farming communities were faced with a problem of a soil with low fertility status, which in their attempt to increase productivity of such soil over applied fertilizers, which contains mainly those basic plat’s nutrients. In this paper we gave farmers appropriate fertilizer recommendations for some principal crops grown in the area.