Effects of Spacing and Varieties on the Growth and Yield of Cowpea (Vignauguiculata L.). Grown in Makurdi, Benue State. Nigeria

Madina, P, Esang, D. M, Iyough, D. D

Citation: Madina, P, Esang, D. M, Iyough, D. D, "Effects of Spacing and Varieties on the Growth and Yield of Cowpea (Vignauguiculata L.). Grown in Makurdi, Benue State. Nigeria", Universal Library of Innovative Research and Studies, Volume 01, Issue 01.

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Abstract

A field experiment was carried out at the Agronomy Teaching and Research Farm of Joseph Sarwun, Tarka, University Makurdi, Benue State Nigeria at 70 41N and Longitude 80 37E, 400m above sea level in Southern Guinea Savannah Agro-ecological zone of Nigeria to investigate the Effects of Spacing and Variety on the Growth and Yield of Cowpea (Vignauguiculata L.). Two spacing were used 25 and 30cm intra row spacing and three medium maturing varieties of IT07K-274-2-9, IAR-07-1050 and UAM-1051-1 were used for study. The treatment were combined and laid in a randomized complete block design with three replications. During the research, growth characters such as plant height, number of leaves, days of maturity, 50% flowering were measured. Other yield and yield related characters like number of pod, number of seed, 1000 seed weight and seed yield were also recorded. The use of 30cm intra row spacing produced significantly (P=0.05) in both growth and yield related parameters except in plant height where 25cm spacing had taller plants (61.21), days to maturity (79.45) and 50% flowering (60.21) while spacing 30cm had higher number of leaves (50.11) higher number of pod per plants (46.01), number of seeds per pod (10.99), weightier pod (900.11), weightier 100 seeds (120.56) and over all yield (681.16) The use of medium maturing varieties was also observed to produce significantly (P=0.05) with 1T07K-274-2-9 recorded early days of maturity (79.11), 50% days of flowering (61.21) and number of pod (47.21) while UAM-1050-1 produced taller plant (62.01), higher number of leaves (51.21) higher number of seeds per pod(11.50) pod weight(1084.01),100 seed weight (22.68) and overall yield (698.82).Form the result cowpea farmers in Makurdi are advice to grow UAM-105-1 at 30cm intra row spacing for optimum yield.


Keywords: Spacing, Variety and Yield

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