Performance of Maize (Zea mays [L.]) as Influenced by Row Arrangement and Cow dung Rates Grown in In

During the 2014 and 2015 rainy seasons, field trials were conducted at the Teaching and Research Farm of the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria, to investigate the output of maize in a maize/watermelon intercrop with various row arrangements and cow dung rates in a Sudan Savanna Agro-ecology. The treatments included three row arrangements of maize: watermelon (1:1,1:2, and 2:1) and five levels of cow dung rates (0, 5, 10, 15, and 20t per ha) laid out in a split plot pattern and repeated three times.The main plots received cow dung, while the sub plots received row arrangements. The number of cobs per plant, cob length, cob diameter, 100 grain weight, and grain yield per ha were the maize parameters studied. The results showed that a 1:2 row arrangement resulted in substantially larger maize cob diameter. The 2:1 row arrangement, on the other hand, resulted in a substantially higher maize grain yield per hectare. The maize grain yield per ha was found to be best when 10t cow dung per ha was added to the mixture.For grain yield per ha, the relationship or combination of 2:1 row arrangement and 10t cow dung per ha was optimal. According to the findings of this report, in the Sudan Savanna setting, a 2:1 row arrangement with 10t cow dung per ha should be used to grow maize in intercrop with watermelon.

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