Abstract
Evaluation of Biocontrol Agent and Wheat Straw Mulch on Yield and Yield Components of Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) Genotypes in Central Tigray, Northern Ethiopia
Highlights
Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.), is an annual legume crop originated from South America, and gradually became the most popular and universal crop currently cultivated over 107 countries in six continents of the world
The analysis of variance (ANOVA) showed that plant height and number of seeds per plant were significantly influenced by the interaction effect of groundnut genotypes, T. harzianum and wheat straw mulching
Soil moisture content at harvest, days to 90% physiological maturity, number of pods per plant, number of seeds per pod, seed yield per plant, hundred seed weight and total seed yield were significantly affected by the main effect of genotypes, T. harzianum and wheat straw mulch separately
Summary
Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.), is an annual legume crop originated from South America, and gradually became the most popular and universal crop currently cultivated over 107 countries in six continents of the world. According to Wiess 2000 groundnut covers an area of 25.34 million hectares in the world with a total production of 42.63 million metric tons with the highest production of 46.76% from Asia and 41.99% from Africa (USDA, 2017). Its production accounted for about 75255.73 hectares with a corresponding gross annual production of 115, 150.04 metric tons in 2015/2016 cropping season (CSA, 2017). Groundnut is widely growing in eastern part of the country, i.e. Hararghe (Daniel, 2009). The crop is produced in Tanqua Abergelle and Mereb Leke in Central and some districts in northwestern zone of Tigray (Dereje et al, 2012; Gebreselassie et al, 2014;Brhane et al, 2016)
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