MEKDELA AMBA UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOUCES

DEPARTMENT OF HORTICULTUTE

EFFECT OF DIFFERENT RATE OF BLENDED NPS FERTILIZER ON GROWTH

AND YIELD OF GARLIC(Allium sativum L.at TULAWLIYA DISTRICT
BY GROUP SIX ID NO
NAME
BAZEZEW MINICHIL………………………………..0589/2010
ATEKA ABERA………………………………………0571/2010
WASSIE ALTASEB……………………………………0956/2010
MOHAMMED ALEBACHEW………………………0835/2010

TULUAWLIYA,ETHIOPIA 1
Presentation outline

1. INTRODUCTION
2. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
3. OBJECTIVES
4. MATERIAL AND METHOD
5. WORK PLAN
6. BUDGET PLAN

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 1. INTRODUCTION

• Garlic (Allium sativum L.) belongs to the family Alliacea

and the most important bulb crop.
• The origin of garlic is thought to be in central Asia (India,
Afghanistan, west China, Russia).
• garlic is one of the main Allium vegetable crop in the world
and used as a seasoning in many foods throughout the
globe.
• Garlic is volatile and has sulfur combining compounds
which is responsible for strong odor, its unique flavor and
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pungency as well as for healthful benefits.
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• Garlic has also medicinal value which is well recognized in

the disease, diabetes, cancer.

• Total area under cultivation in the world is 1,199,929 ha with

total production of 17,674,893 tones (FAO, 2012).

• In Ethiopia the total area under garlic production in 2009/2010

reached 15,361.25 ha and the production is estimated to over
179,657.8 tones (CSA, 2010).

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• Under the comparison of countries in garlic production, next
to ten top garlic producers, China, India, South Korea, Egypt,
Russia, Bangladesh, Burma, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, United
states.

• Ethiopia has placed number 12 in the world ranking and world

share of Ethiopia in garlic exporting was very small amount
only 0.7 % (FAOSTAT, 2013).

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•In Africa ,Ethiopia was the third in the area(10,690) after Egypt
and Algeria, second in production but fourth in productivity with
9.63 t/ ha which was far below Egypt (24.36 tone /ha), Kenya
(23.87 t/ha ) and Niger (10.64 t/ha) in 2011(FAOSTAT,2013).

•One of the major problems affecting crop production in Africa

including Ethiopia is the rapid depletion of nutrients in
smallholder farms.

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• In many garlic –producing areas, low availability of nutrients
is the major factor limiting garlic production next to soil
moisture stress.
• According Diriba et al.,(2013) reported that garlic bulbs
supplied with N,P and S improve bulb quality.

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 1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

•Garlic (Allium sativum L.) is one of the most important

vegetable (bulbs) crop.

•But the productivity both at the country and regional level is

very low due to this poor agronomic practice mainly due to lack
of integrate fertilizer application like NPS fertilizer.

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•The application of fertilizer by many small holder farmer
considered as extra cost especially for vegetable, although Some
farmers are use chemical fertilizer.

• however the type of fertilizer restricted by DAP and urea only

with the rate of application below or above the National blanket
recommendation which is about 105KgN/ha and 92KgP/ha for
garlic production (EIAR, 2007).

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• Recently the ministry of agriculture has introduced a new

blend fertilizer containing N, P, and S but the application rate
for garlic is not yet known.
• Therefore, the aim of this study determine optimum rate of
NPS blend fertilizer for the growth, yield and yield
performance of garlic under Tulu Awullia.

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 1.3. OBJECTIVES

1.3.1. GENERAL OBJECTIVE

•To investigate the effect of different NPS fertilizer rate on

growth and yield of garlic.

1.3.2. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE

 To evaluate the response of garlic to different NPS

fertilizer rate.
 To Known optimum rate of NPS fertilizer for garlic

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 3. MATERIAL AND METHOD
3.1. DESCRIPTION OF STUDY AREA
•The experiment will be conducting at Mekdela Amba University

College of Agricultures and Natural Resource (MAUAGR).

•Department of Horticulture Demonstration Site Under rain fed

and supplement with irrigation.

•The area suited Amhara Region,North part of Ethiopia.It is

located at 501 km north of Addis Ababa.it is found 39 0 00'N

latitude and 11°00'E longitiude.

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• The altitude of the area is1500-3700 meter above sea

level(m.a.s.l). The area receives annual rain fall 700-1200

mm. The maximum and minimum temperature is 13oc and

15oc respectively(CSA, 2008).

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 3.2. Experimental Material

• Healthy and uniform medium-sized cloves of garlic is used

( local variety) will be obtained from local market, will used
as an experimental material.

3.3. LAND PREPARATION

•The land will be clear, plough (disk), level; large clods are broke
down. Then remnant, stalks, non-decompose crop residues,
weeds, and other unwanted materials are remove.

•Then soil will be smooth and the land is plough and harrow to
pulverize the soil. The field is then mark out into plots. 14
 3.4. Experimental design and Treatment
•The experiment will be one factors namely 6 level of NPS
blended fertilizer application rate (0, 50, 100,150, 200 and 200kg
ha-1).

• Based on agricultural transformation agency tentative

fertilizer recommendation rate on the study area (Table 1).

• The experiment will be lay out as a randomized complete

block design (RCBD) with replicated three times.

• Each plot consisted of five rows with 10cm between plants

and 30 cm between rows. The two outer rows will be
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considered as border.
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• The blocks will be separated by a 1 m wide open space
whereas the plots within a block will be separated by a 0.5m
wide space.

• The treatment will be assigned to each plot randomly. The

size of each plot will be 1.5 wide and 2 m long (3m 2). The
total area of land will be 94.25 m2.

• Healthy and uniform medium-sized local variety garlic cloves

will be planted with each plot consists of 20 plant with 5
rows , thus a total of 100 plants per plot. 16
•Table 1. Possible treatments

Treatment Code Treatment

NPS kg/ha

T1 0

T2 50

T3 100

T4(National recommended) 150

T5 200

T6 250
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 3.5. Experimental Field Layout:

12m

2m
T1 T4 T3 T6 T5
RI 1.5m 0.5m 0.5m T2

1m

6.5m T6 T2 T1 T5 T3 T4

RII

T2 T5 T6 T4
T1 T3
RIII

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 3.6. DATA COLLECTION
•The following Parameter Will be Collected at Vegetative Stage
of Garlic;

•Growth parameter

•Plant height

•Number of leaves

•Leaf length

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 Yield parameter

•Bulb weight
•Bulb length
•Bulb diameter
• Marketable bulb yield
• Unmarketable bulb yield
• Total bulb yield

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 3.7. DATA ANALYSIS
• Data collected will be subjected to analysis of variance (ANOVA)

appropriate to single factor experiment in RCBD manually

•Interpretations will be made following the procedure described by Gomez

and Gomez.

•Whenever the effects of the treatments will be found significant, the means

will be compared using least significance difference (LSD) test at 5% level of

significance.

•To determine simple relationship between yield and yield components as

affected by rate of NPS fertilizer application.

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 4. WORK PLAN
Table 2. Details of work plan
S/n Activities Implementation Schedule

1 Literature review Juanuary 2020

2 Proposal write up and defense February 2020

3 Land preparation March2020

4 Field Layout March 2020

5 Preparation seeds March 2020

6 Field Managements March - May 2020

7 Data collection for Growth parameter March - May2020

8 Data collection for yield component parameters May 2020

9 Data analysis and report write up June 2020

10 Final Draft summation and presentation June2020 22

 5.4 BUDGET SUMMARY

Table-6. Budget summary

Item Sub total

Personal cost 1500
Material and supplies cost 2210
Stationary cost 575
Total 4985
Source MAU

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