Determination of Optimum Rate of Blended Fertilizer for Pod Yield of Snap Bean (Pharsalus vulgaris L.) at Teda, North Gondar, Ethiopia
Keywords:
snap bean, pod yield, blended fertilizer.Abstract
Therefore based on the governments direction to use blended fertilizer instead of di-ammonium phosphate, use of 300 kg/ha blended fertilizer can be used as an option to maximize snap bean productivity and higher return.
Snap bean is one of the important legume vegetable crops. Snap bean production in Ethiopia has both challenge and opportunity. But there is limited research regarding the response of snap bean to different sources of fertilizer. There is no site and crop specific rate determination of blended fertilizer was not done yet. Seven blended fertilizer with the recommended NP2O5 rates were evaluated during 2016 offseason by irrigation at Teda experimental site of University of Gondar, northwest part of Ethiopia.
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