Demonstration of Soil Test Crop Response Based Phosphorus Fertilizer Recommendation on Bread Wheat in Yaya Gulele District, North Shewa Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia

Abera Donis; Abreham Feyisa; Tadele Geremu; Ajema Lemma

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Demonstration of Soil Test Crop Response Based Phosphorus Fertilizer Recommendation on Bread Wheat in Yaya Gulele District, North Shewa Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia

Abera Donis, Abreham Feyisa, Tadele Geremu, Ajema Lemma

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Wheat is a major crop produced in Ethiopian high lands which is a staple food crop. Regardless of this fact, average productivity of the crop both at National and Regional level is very low as contrasted with the world average yield due to different factors and among them low soil fertility is a major. Hence, Pre-extension demonstration of soil test based crop response phosphorus calibration study on bread wheat was conducted at YayaGuleledistrict of North Shewa zone during 2019/20 cropping season with the objectives to demonstrate P-critical value and P-requirement factor for phosphorus recommendation of bread wheat. Five kebeles were purposively selected based on the wheat production potential in the study area. A total of six farmer’s fields with initial phosphorus concentration below critical Phosphorus Concentration for the district were selected. One Farmers Research Group comprising 15 farmers by considering gender was established at each kebeles and training was delivered for farmers, DAs, and district experts on soil test crop response based phosphorus recommendation for bread wheat production. The bread wheat crop were fertilized by blanket recommendation (100:100 kg ha^-1 of Urea and DAP) and soil test crop response based phosphorus recommendation on 20m*20m plot size. The phosphorus fertilizer rate was calculated based on the formula [(23-pi)*3.76] established for the district. Improved variety of bread wheat Danda’a was used as a test crop with 150 kg ha^-1 seed rate. Grain yield and farmer feedback/preference were collected. The results of the study revealed that the soil reaction (H₂O) were moderately to slightly acidic with the value ranged from 5.54 to 6.54, low to high available P with the value ranged from 7.92 to 20.73 ppm. The result of the study also showed that, the highest grain yield and net income were obtained from application of Soil test based P-fertilizer recommendation supplemented with 92 kg ha^-1 of N and which gave 49.48%yield advantage over the blanket fertilizer recommendation. The MRR obtained from Soil test based P-fertilizer recommendation was economically feasible and the highest MRR and net income were obtained from soil test based fertilizer recommendation. Thus, farmers in the district of YayaGulele could be advised to use soil test based crop response phosphorus recommendation to increase the bread wheat production.

Published in	Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (Volume 7, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.cbe.20220702.13
Page(s)	33-37
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Pre-extension Demonstration, FRG, Soil Test Based Fertilizer Recommendation, MRR, Net Income

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Abera Donis

Natural Resource Research Process, Soil Fertility Improvement and Problematic Soil Management Research Team, Fitche Agricultural Research Canter, Oromia Agricultural Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Abreham Feyisa

Natural Resource Research Process, Soil Fertility Improvement and Problematic Soil Management Research Team, Fitche Agricultural Research Canter, Oromia Agricultural Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Tadele Geremu

Natural Resource Research Process, Soil Fertility Improvement and Problematic Soil Management Research Team, Fitche Agricultural Research Canter, Oromia Agricultural Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Ajema Lemma

Natural Resource Research Process, Soil Fertility Improvement and Problematic Soil Management Research Team, Fitche Agricultural Research Canter, Oromia Agricultural Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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AU  - Abreham Feyisa
AU  - Tadele Geremu
AU  - Ajema Lemma
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