Grain Yield and Economic Importance of Bio Fertilizer Rates of Soybean at Begi and Asossa Districts Western Ethiopia

Anbessa, Bakala and Almaw, Dessie and Getachew, Zerihun (2022) Grain Yield and Economic Importance of Bio Fertilizer Rates of Soybean at Begi and Asossa Districts Western Ethiopia. International Journal of Plant & Soil Science, 34 (20). pp. 346-351. ISSN 2320-7035

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Abstract

A field experiment was conducted on Nitisols of Asossa Agricultural Research Centre during 2017/18 to 2018/2019 cropping season toinvestigate the response of yieldpartial budget analysis to biofertilizer rates.The N fertilizer treatments considered in the study consisted of six levels (rates) of biofertilizer, one nationally recommended inorganic N and negative control of N.The treatments consists of: 125 g ha-1 (T1), 250 g ha-1 (T2), 500 g ha-1 (T3), 625 g ha-1 (T4), 750 g ha-1 (T5), 900 g ha-1 (T6), negative control (T7) and 18kg N ha-1. The treatments were laid out as a Randomized Complete Block Design with three replications.The analysis of variance revealed that bio-fertilizer rates significantly (P < 0.01) affected grain yield at Begi district, while non-siginificant (p<0.05) at Asossa district. The maximum (3483.7 kg ha-1 and 1750.9 kg ha-1) grain yield was recorded from 500 g ha-1bio-fertilizer at Begi and Asossa district respectively. The application of 500 g ha-1biofertilizer had the highest net-benefit of 20850.8 ETB, followed by 125 g ha -1biofertilizer which also had a total of 20196.8 ETB net benefit at Asossa district, while the application of 500 g ha-1biofertilizerhad the highest net-benefit of 41644.4 ETB, followed by 125 g ha-1biofertilizer which also had a total of 38315.6 ETB net benefit at Begi district. The application of 500 g ha-1bio-fertilizer ha-1 had highest net benefit. Therefore, we recommended the treatment 500 g ha-1since it produced high marginal rate of return, high net benefit and relatively small total cost of production, for soybean production in Begi and Asossa area.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: EP Archives > Agricultural and Food Science
Depositing User: Managing Editor
Date Deposited: 21 Feb 2023 05:17
Last Modified: 09 Mar 2024 04:07
URI: http://research.send4journal.com/id/eprint/1588

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