Influence of Farmyard Manure and NPS Fertilizer on Hot Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) Growth and Yield Variables at Western Ethiopia

Chala Kitila; Gemechisa  Olana

doi:10.14719/pst.2445

Authors

Chala Kitila Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture and Natural Resource, Dambi Dollo University, Dambi Dollo P.O. Box: 206, Ethiopia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4596-5001
Gemechisa Olana Department of Plant Sciences, College of Natural Resource, Dambi Dollo University, Dambi Dollo P.O. Box: 260, Ethiopia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1512-1529

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14719/pst.2445

Keywords:

Hot pepper, Marako Fana, NPS, FYM, inorganic fertilizer, yield traits

Abstract

Hot peppers are important vegetable crops widely grown in Ethiopia. Investigation into the economic, nutritive and therapeutic purposes of the pepper plant is extremely limited. Thus, a field trial was piloted to assess the influence of NPS (compound fertilizer containing three important plant nutrients of nitrogen, phosphate, and sulphur with the ratio of 19% N, 38% P2O5, and 7% S) and farmyard manure (FYM) fertilizer on hot pepper at the Dambi Dollo University research field for two consecutive years (2020 and 2021) under rain fed. The finding was systematized in a Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with three repetitions and variety of Marako Fana hot pepper was assessed. NPS fertilizer at four level (0, 100, 200, 300 kg N ha-1) and four FYM levels (0, 2.5, 5, 7.5, 10 t ha-1) were owed to the study area and a total of 20 treatments. The research results revealed that FYM and NPS mineral fertilizer interacts to affect positively (P<0.05) maximum parameters without unmarketable harvest, which was influenced through the single effect of NPS and FYM. The highest marketable pod yield (2.28 t ha-1) and total pod harvest (2.72 t ha-1) was recorded through NPS rates of 100 kg ha-1 applied with 5 t ha-1 of farmyard manure. Consequently, it is likely to determine that hot pepper farmers can use NPS mineral fertilizer rate of 100 kg ha-1 with 5 t ha-1 of FYM that would expand yield of the hot peppers in the study area with similar agro-ecological conditions.

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