What is it about?
Cabbage is an important vegetable which supplies many vitamins and minerals to the body and also provide medicinal functions. The use of inorganic fertilizer, although helps crop growth and yield, the chemical nature of these fertilizers have been reported to reduce the phytochemical and antioxidant content of plants. We therefore cultivated cabbage using some organic manure and inorganic fertilizer to see their effects on the growth, yield and phytochemical content (qualitative and quantitative) of cabbage.
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Why is it important?
The importance of animal excreta in crop production has not been properly harnessed. The work revealed that the usage of organic manure in crop production, especially in cabbage cultivation is beneficial to cabbage growth, yield and also the medicinal properties to be derived from cabbage, in term of their phytochemicals. The use of poultry droppings for cabbage cultivation compared to cow dung, goat droppings and especially inorganic fertilizer not only improve its growth and yield, it also enhanced the incorporation of phytochemicals such as flavonoids, terpenoids, amino acid and alkaloids into cabbage. Hence, this improves the medicinal properties of such cabbage.
Perspectives
This research work has enabled me and my co-workers to see a different view to crop production. Food consumption not only provides nutritional contents, it also gives medicinal functions to consumers. This research will make people to understand that crop cultivation with organic manures improves the medicinal properties of such foods produced and hence, it will reduce the rate at which people get ill.
Shakirdeen Mayowa Obidola
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This page is a summary of: Influence of Organic Manure and Inorganic Fertilizer on the Growth, Yield and Phytochemical Constituents of Cabbage (Brassica oleracea), Asian Journal of Agricultural and Horticultural Research, July 2019, Sciencedomain International,
DOI: 10.9734/ajahr/2019/v4i130012.
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