Harnessing the Mineral Fertilization Regimes for Bolstering Biomass Productivity and Nutritional Quality of Cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp]

• Autorzy: Iqbal Asif , Abbas Rana Nadeem , Al Zoubi Omar Mahmoud , Alasasfa Muawya A. , Rahim Nasir , Tarikuzzaman Mohammad , Aydemir Serap Kizil , Iqbal Muhammad Aamir

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.12911/22998993/188932

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

To prevent environmental pollution, promote ecological restoration and impart production sustainability in biomass crops, optimization of mineral fertilization regimes is strategically required under changing climatic scenarios. There exist research gaps regarding optimal use of nitrogen (N), phosphorous (P) and potassium (K) fertilizers for the fertilizer-responsive cultivars of forage legumes like cowpea under decreasing soil fertility in semi-arid regions. Therefore, a multi-year field experiment was executed to study yield attributes, green and dry matter yields along with nutritional quality attributes of forage cowpea. The treatments were comprised of different N-P-K levels viz. F₀=(0-0-0), F₁=(150-0-0 kg·ha^-1), F₂=(150-100-0 kg·ha^-1) and F₃=(150-100-100 kg·ha^-1). The findings revealed that F₃ fertilization regime surpassed rest of treatments by recording the maximum plant population, plant height, leaf area index, plants fresh and dry weights, which led to the highest green forage yield (73% and 5.8% higher than control and following treatment of F₂, respectively). For dry matter yield, all fertilization regimes performed better than control, however those were statistically at par to each other. Moreover, F₃ treatment exhibited 4.4% and 1.6% higher crude protein and ether extractable fat respectively, compared to the following treatment of F₂ treatment that remained at par with F₃ for total ash content. Contrastingly, the control treatment remained superior by giving the minimum crude fiber content which could be attributed to dwarf plants produced in the absence of fertilizers because stem length tends to contribute the major portion of f iber content in cowpea. Thus, 150-100-100 kg·ha^-1 N-P-K might be recommended to cowpea growers for boosting biomass productivity and nutritional quality, however further field investigations need to assess the impact of these fertilization regimes on biological N fixation process and solar radiation capture by cowpea plants under irrigated and dry semi-arid conditions.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

urea; forage legumes; crop-livestock farming; biological nitrogen fixation; ecological restoration

• Wydawca: Polskie Towarzystwo Inżynierii Ekologicznej ; Lublin University of Technology
• Czasopismo: Journal of Ecological Engineering
• Rocznik: 2024
• Tom: Vol. 25, nr 7
• Strony: 340--351
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 56 poz., rys., tab.

Twórcy

autor

Iqbal Asif

• Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad 38040, Pakistan

autor

Abbas Rana Nadeem

• Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad 38040, Pakistan

autor

Al Zoubi Omar Mahmoud

• Faculty of Science Yanbu, Taibah University, Yanbu El Bahr 46423, Saudi Arabia

autor

Alasasfa Muawya A.

• Department of Plant Production, Faculty of Agriculture, Mutah University, Karak, Jordan

autor

Rahim Nasir

• Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Poonch Rawalakot, Rawalakot 12750, Pakistan

autor

Tarikuzzaman Mohammad

• Department of Chemical Engineering, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston LA 71270, USA

autor

Aydemir Serap Kizil

• Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Sciences, Bilecik Seyh Edebali University, Turkey

autor

Iqbal Muhammad Aamir

• Department of Chemical Engineering, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston LA 71270, USA

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2701-0551

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