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EFFECT OF ORGANIC MANURE AND HUMIC ACID ON PRODUCTIVITY AND FRUIT QUALITY OF CACTUS PEAR

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Plants

Abstract

A field experiment was conducted during 2018 and 2019 seasons on El-shamia cactus pear plants orchard about eight years old, grown in sandy soil under drip irrigation system from a well located in Abu Ghaleb area, "Cairo-Alexandria desert road" about 50 km from Cairo, Egypt.  The aim of study was the evaluation of the effect of cattle manure soil application rates; i.e. 20, 30 and 40 kg/plant and humic acid at 3 rates; i.e. 0, 10 and 20 g/plant as well as their interactions on growth, cladodes nutrients content, yield and fruit quality and investment ratio of cactus pear plants. Resulted showed that increasing cattle manure rates induced a progressive enhancement of the growth, cladodes nutrients content, yield and fruit quality. Moreover, humic acid at 20 g/plant surpassed the other two tested rates in enhancing the previously mentioned studied traits. Furthermore, cattle manure and humic acid as well as their combinations had positive effects on net profit and investment ratio. Finally, it is preferable to apply cattle manure at 40 kg/plant combined with humic acid at 20 g/plant to enhance growth, yield and fruit quality as well as cladodes nutrients content of El-shamia cactus pear. Besides, cattle manure at 30 kg/plant combined with humic acid at 20 g/plant attained the highest value of total revenue per feddan, net profit per feddan and investment ratio. The effects of cattle manure and humic acid as well as their combinations were cumulative and the second season was better than the first season in productivity and net profit as well as investment ratio.

DOI

10.21608/ejdr.2022.109766.1091

Keywords

Opuntia ficus-indica, cattle manure, Humic acid, productivity, nutrients content, cladodes, fruit quality, economic analysis

Authors

First Name

Osama

Last Name

El Gammal

MiddleName

H.M.

Affiliation

Department of Plant Production, Desert Research Center, Cairo, Egypt

Email

elgmalaa@gmail.com

City

cairo

Orcid

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First Name

Amro

Last Name

Salama

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Department of Plant Production, Desert Research Center, Cairo, Egypt

Email

amrosmss@yahoo.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0003-3957-248X

Volume

72

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

36294

Issue Date

2022-06-01

Receive Date

2021-12-06

Publish Date

2022-06-30

Page Start

1

Page End

25

Print ISSN

1687-8043

Online ISSN

2356-9875

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Original Article

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117

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Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Desert Research

Publication Link

https://ejdr.journals.ekb.eg/

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EFFECT OF ORGANIC MANURE AND HUMIC ACID ON PRODUCTIVITY AND FRUIT QUALITY OF CACTUS PEAR

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22 Jan 2023