| dc.description.abstract | Any countries are food insecure, yet there is a population explosion globally that needs to be fed from the declining and degraded soils due poor agronomic practices, pollution and more others yet agriculture is the major survival activity. According to the annual agricultural survey conducted by UBOS in 2019, maize remains the major temporary crop cultivated in Uganda (2.8 MT). Buganda north is the highest producer with 710,000MT followed by Bunyoro (561,000MT) and Buganda south with 266000MT and giving an average yield of 1.6MT/ha. There is need to nourish and feed the growing Uganda population of 45,853,778million people (World Bank 2021). The study was conducted in MUARIK stationed in Wakiso which is a district of central Buganda. Wakiso is the most highly populated Ugandan district with a total population of 2,007,700 persons (UBOS 2020-2021 stat). According to the KCCA annual report the urban domestic waste per day mounts to 750 tonnes with a 73.8% vegetable matter content and this can be composted to generate manure as an Agro-input. Meanwhile, adoption and use of organic fertilizer, has been greatly ignored by most farmers for the synthetic fertilizers. The main objective of this research was to compare the performance of bio-fertilizers in relation with farm yard manure and inorganic fertilizer (NPK), on Longe 10H. The study was conducted out in 2019-2020 at MUARIK in Wakiso district in central Uganda. A completely randomized design (CRD) was used and the field was divided into 16 plots with each treatment having four replicates applied in at rates of Bio-fertilizer (5kgs), FYM (20kgs) and NPK (500g) in per plot of area 18m2.Before setting up plots, soil sampling and laboratory soil analysis following (Okalebo et al., 2002) was carried to determine the initial soil status. Growth and yield parameters monitored for the study included Plant height, leaf area, stem girth, number of cobs and grain weight which was converted to yield(kg/ha). The data collected were subjected to ANOVA using GenStat statistical package 14th edition. Significant means were separated using Fischer‟s LSD at 5% level of significance. Generally, the application of treatments had a significant effect on both the growth and yield of maize. The plant height, leaf area and stem girth being responsive to the treatment and giving different measures. It can be concluded that the application of the urban bio-fertilizer had a significant effect on the growth of the maize variety as expected. | en_US |
