Agronomic performance of two mungbean (Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek) varieties under conventional and organic farming systems

Date

4-2014

Degree

Bachelor of Science in Agriculture

Major Course

Major in Agronomy

College

College of Agriculture and Food Science (CAFS)

Adviser/Committee Chair

Roberta N. Garcia

Restrictions

Restricted: Not available to the general public. Access is available only after consultation with author/thesis adviser and only to those bound by the confidentiality agreement.

Abstract

The field experiment was conducted to compare the growth and yield parameters of two mungbean varieties: Pag-asa 7 (green variety) and Pag-asa 3 (yellow variety)under conventional and organically-based farming systems. Four fertilizers were applied: (a) pure organic ? Glyricidia sepium (b) pure organic carabao manure (c) pure inorganic ? complete fertilizer and (d) control ? no fertilizer. The experiment was laid out in Split Plot Randomized Complete Block Design. Between the two varieties, Pagasa 7 performed better than Pag-asa 3 and the difference was significant. The results revealed that conventional farming had the highest number of pods plant-1(20.50), number of pod cluster-1 (5.20), number of seed pod-1 (12.00), 100-seed weight (5.56 g) and seed yield (72.61 g). Organic farming treatment using Glyricidia sepium leaves had the highest plant height (100.15 cm), pod length (13.14 cm) and pod weight (13.28 g) and treatment using carabao manure had the highest germination rate (92.54 %) and number of cluster plant-1(4.35). Generally, this study concluded that growth and yield parameters of mung bean plants were most responsive under conventional treatment using commercially available complete fertilizer. In addition, conventional and organic farming systems differ significantly from each other notably in terms of the degree of their effect on mungbean growth and some soil properties.

Language

English

Location

UPLB Main Library Special Collections Section (USCS)

Call Number

LG 993.5 2014 A3 /V46

Document Type

Thesis

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