{"id":349,"date":"2018-02-22T18:17:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T18:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/develop.acai-project.org\/?p=194"},"modified":"2018-02-22T18:17:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T18:17:56","slug":"preliminary-results-indicate-significant-cassava-response-to-fertilizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akilimo.org\/index.php\/2018\/02\/22\/preliminary-results-indicate-significant-cassava-response-to-fertilizer\/","title":{"rendered":"preliminary results indicate significant cassava response to fertilizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-732 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/acai-project.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Cassava-Trial-Farm-featured-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First yield results of Nutrients Omission Trials (NOT) reveal significant responses to fertilizer. First data on the 34 NOT trails have been analyzed and it is now available. The average root yield increase with NPK recorded from the first yield results is 4 t\/ha but varying between 0-15t\/ha.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The results from 23 trials in Tanzania and 11 in Nigeria show substantial responses to fertilizer following trends similar to those observed in other crops like Maize.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The NOT trial activities observed;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Non-responsive fields with low control yields (less than 10t\/ha)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Strong responses in fields with medium control yields (10-20 t\/ha) and less frequently<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">High yielding fields of more than 20t\/ha with low response to fertilizer<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/develop.acai-project.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Scatter-Graph.tif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-216\" src=\"https:\/\/develop.acai-project.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Scatter-Graph.tif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/a>This justifies the need for targeted fertilizer application through decision support tool that provides site specific fertilizer recommendation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-217 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/develop.acai-project.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Scatter-Graph.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"650\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These results seem to indicate that Nitrogen (N) is the most deficient nutrient followed by potassium (K). No yield increase was observed when only Phosphorous (P) and Potassium was added. Application of Potassium results in site specific responses only.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Harvest for the for NOT trials is ongoing. There will be more analysis on the trail results is expected to provide extensive and conclusive data.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First yield results of Nutrients<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akilimo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akilimo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akilimo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akilimo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akilimo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/akilimo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akilimo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akilimo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akilimo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akilimo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}