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EFFECT OF DIFFERENT ORGANIC FERTILIZER TYPES ON THE GROWTH AND YIELD OF Celeosia argentea (Lagos spinach) IN JOS, PLATEAU STATE, NIGERIA
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Celosia argentea is leafy vegetable grown in West Africa mostly in Southern part of Nigeria, it is an edible leaf. This experiment was conducted to determine the effect of poultry and cow dung manure on the growth and yield of C. argentea. The study was carried out at Federal College of Forestry Jos, for a period of 8 weeks. A Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) was used in 3 treatments and replicated. Data were collected on leaf count, plant height, leaf area, stem girth, total weight of fresh and dried harvest of C. argentea. Analysis of Variance indicated that poultry and cow dung manure had significant (p<0.05) differences on the growth and yield of C. argentea when compared to the control. However T2 (poultry manure) showed a very high significant effect in all parameters measured followed by T1 (cow dung manure) compared to the control (T3) which had the lowest yield.
