The Application Of Liquid Fertilizer Made Of Traditional Market Organic Wastes On Growth Of Setaria Grass (Setaria splendida Stapf)

Abstract

There are hugh amount of traditional market organic wastes that may polute the environment. In general, the wastes are utilized for compost making and liquid fertilizer as well for plant. The use of liquid fertilizer from organic wastes of traditional markets opens up opportunities for misplaced cultivation of Setaria grass (Setaria splendida Stapf), which is required by ruminant farms. This research was conducted to evaluate the best mixture of water to the fertilizer in term of its effectiveness on the variables and experimental method using Completely Randomized Design. The treatments were: 6 doses of mixtures namely 0, 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 liters of water, each of which was mixed with 10 liters of liquid fertilizer. The variables measured were the height, the numbers of tillers, the numbers of leaves, and canopy. The results of the study showed that the doses of water in the fertilizer did not indicate any significant differences (P > 0.05) on all variables being studied, however, the linear equation showed that greater concentrations of water in the fertilizer tended to decrease the growth of Setaria grass. Suggested use of water on the liquid fertilizer mixture should be not greater than 30 l – 10 l fertilizer.

Liquid of Organic Fertilizer from Waste of Market Convensional System Applied on Agronomic Observation ofSetaria SplendidaStapf at Various Ages Defoliation

“…The measurement results showed that the average size of the Setaria Splendida Stapf plant height was 42.76 cm, in the range of 31.33 cm -52.15 cm. These results are lower than the results of [10] which showed that the size of the Setaria Splendida Stapf plant height was 50.17 cm, but at almost the same range. Table 3 shows that the older the plants, the higher their height [11], the highest increase in size between the age of 40 days to 45 days which is as much as 5.22 cm while between 35 -40 days, the addition is only 1.96 cm.…”

“…As a potential natural resource in human life, it is possible to need another strategy in the utilization of liquid of organic fertilizer from market conventional system waste in its application for feed crops [10]. These strategies include fertilization time, fertilizer dosage, fertilization technique, mixture with other materials and so on.…”