The Response of Brassica rapa (Pechay) to the Three Different Kind of Organic Fertilizer; Vegetables, Rice and Bone

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Agriculture sector is one of the main agenda to improve in or country since that it has many uses for the economy. Organic fertilizer is good source of nutrients for the soil and its plant. It helps to improve physical, biological and chemical characteristics of the soil. This study was conducted to evaluate the growth rate and yield performance of pechay, applied with different kind of food waste as organic fertilizer and determines the effect of organic fertilizer in terms of plant's characteristic. This is why the study focuses on the plants growth with an application of the different kinds of organic fertilizer that can affect its characteristics.

METHODS

Collection of the organic compounds was done from the canteen and houses food wastes. Three types of compost fertilizer are used; vegetable wastes, bone wastes and rice wastes. The soil on where the plant must be placed was first clean and cultivated. The pechay seed was planted on a controlled set-up and transfer to the main plot with fertilizer on its second week. This research was observed for three months. Two-way ANOVA was used to analyze the data gathered.

RESULTS

Vegetable fertilizer has the highest mean plant height among the three. It gathers a lead of four and the bone has only a slight mean height differential of 1-4 cm on the controlled setup. In addition, for the number of leaves the Pechay containing the vegetable organic fertilizer has the most abundant mean number of leaves among three. It has a mean of 7.30 and the next is a mean of 4.02 for the rice

DISCUSSIONS

This study was conducted to determine the effects of the different kind of organic fertilizer on the Brassica rapa (Pechay) which will give the best height and the greatestnumber of leaves. The statistical analysis was computed, the research on the response of pechay on the three different types of Organic Fertilizer, was conducted to find the difference of the pechay plants with the organic fertilizer and the controlled setup. The results show that the vegetable has the highest mean height and number of leaves. Moreover, as stated in our hypotheses, the organic fertilizer containing the bone will have the highest mean height and number of leaves. The statistical analysis of one-way ANOVA that shows that the F-value of the given data has highly significant than the F-crit, it indicates that the hypotheses was rejected. In addition, the P-value that is lower than the alpha level of 0.05 that we need to reject our hypotheses. The results were significant and are parallel to the analysis.