Sowing Date and Insecticide Trials with Selected Multi-Adversity Resistant Cotton Varieties in the Northern Guinea Savanna of Nigeria

Assessing the potentials of growing Samcot 9 Cotton variety in Kano state, Nigeria

“…This is similar to the report of Lekwa & Nto (1982) who demonstrated that the soils in the cotton growing areas of northern Nigeria were generally sandy loam or loam sandy, acidic with low humus contents and low nitrogen. This might be one of the major causes for the consistently low yield of seed cotton in the area, similar observations were made by Kuchinda et al (2002) and also by Lekwa & Nto (1982), that adherence to fertilizer recommendations for specific soil type and crop will produce high yield in the area.…”

“…The report of Kumar & Ogunlela (1985) further supports the effect of planting time in Nigeria. Kuchinda et al (2002) also reported that sowing cotton in the midJune and early July resulted in higher plant height, boll numbers, percent mature bolls and seed cotton yield than planting it late.…”

“…This connotes that about double of the expected yield in 1990 would be required by the year 2010 since the population will be expected to double by that year. However, a major expansion of the cotton growing areas is not envisaged due to falling crop yields (Kuchinda et al 2002). It is also known that within the north-western sub-region of Nigeria where cotton is grown in large quantity, most of it comes from States of Kaduna, Katsina, Zamfara, Sokoto and Kebbi.…”