Influence of Beans and Spacing on Management of Weed and Soil Fertility to Improve Rice Productivity through Bean-Rice Sequential Cropping Mbarali -Tanzania
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Hamza Juma Mkoka , Newton Kilasi , Kallunde .P. Sibuga ,
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Abstract
Weed management on rice fields is necessary to reduce yield loss. A field experiment was conducted during the season 2020-21 at Mbuyuni Irrigation Scheme of Mbarali District to assess the effect of bean varieties and spacing on management of weed and soil nutrients in a bean-rice sequential cropping. The study was laid out as a 3×3 factorial experiment arranged in Complete Randomized Block Design (CRBD) with three replications. Treatments in bean phase were bean varieties (Wanja, Njano Uyole and Mshindi) and row spacing (50 cm × 20 cm (S1), 50 cm × 15 cm (S2) and 50 cm × 10 cm (S3)) while treatments in the rice phase were bean residues at the weight of 5 t/ha, 10 t/ha and 15 t/ha for each bean varieties, weight of 5 t/ha used as control since it is farmer practice. The data were collected weed biomass, weed height, bean yield and rice yield and analysed using Genstat software (16th edition) and the means were separated using Tukey's significant test at a 5% level of significance. The results indicate significant effects (P=0.05) for treatments interaction of bean varieties and row spacing on weed count per m2 and weed biomass. The interaction of Wanja 50 cm × 10 cm had weed count of 17 per m2 and biomass of 7.3 gm-2. The interaction of bean variety and row spacing were significant (P= 0.05) on the number of pods per plant, bean biomass and grain yield. The incorporated bean residues, significantly (P=0.001) improved spikelet count and weight of 1000 rice seeds whereby 15 t/ha had a high spikelet (20) and panicle weight of (24.7 g/panicle). From the results it is recommended that farmers should adopt bean- rice sequential cropping using bush bean varieties at the spacing of 50 cm x 20 cm on weed management and farmer should applying 15 t/ha of crop residues to improve soil nutrients.
Keywords
Bean, Rice, Weed, sequential cropping, crop residues
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