Relationships Between Nutrient Of Land And Cow’s Blood Added With Bioactivators On Performance of Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.)

Fiana Podesta,Dwi Fitriani,Suryadi Suryadi,Ririn Harini

doi:10.31186/aa.23.2.67-71

Abstract

Soybean production in Bengkulu Province is still lower than national production. Soybean production can still be improved by adding nutrients, one source of untapped nutrients is cow's blood which is still a waste. The purpose of this research is to determine the effect of cow’s blood added with bioactivators on growth performance of soybean. This research was conducted by using a complete randomized design (CRD) arranged factorially consisted of two factors with three replications. The first factor was the various kinds of cow’s blood added with bioactivators consisting of Yeast, Stale Rice, Microorganism-Bio(M-Bio), Effective Microorganism-4 (EM-4), and Rumen. The second factor was the concentration of cow’s blood added with bioactivators consisting of 15%, 30%, and 45%. Results showed: 1) There was no treatments interaction between various kinds of cow’s blood added with bioactivators and its concentration in the growth, 2) the various kinds of cow’s blood added with bioactivators had significant effect in the growth of plant height, number of leaves, number of branches, wet and dry weight, but it had no significant effect on plant height and leaf area, and 3) The concentration of cow’s blood added with bioactivators has no significant effect in the growth. This study indicated that cow’s blood added with Rumen as bioactivator showed better growth performance of soybean. Keywords: bioactivators, cow’s blood, nutrient of land, performance of soybean

Highlights

Soybean is a member of the leguminosae family, a group of plant that can fix atmospheric nitrogen (N2) through symbiotic bacteria in root nodules
The first factor was the type of bioactivators added into the cow-blood (Yeast, Stale Rice, Microorganism-Bio (M-Bio), Effective Microorganism-4 (EM-4), and Rumen)
Soil Analysis The results of soil analysis were shown in Nutrient Analysis Results indicated that nutrient contents of cow’s blood added with bioactivators had the highest N content (0.37%), the followed by Stale rice (0.33%), Effective Microorganism4 (EM-4) (0.29%), M-Bio (0.29%) and Yeast (0.26) (Table 2)

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Introduction

Soybean is a member of the leguminosae family, a group of plant that can fix atmospheric nitrogen (N2) through symbiotic bacteria (rhizobia) in root nodules. According to (BPS, 2018) the area of soybean cultivation in Bengkulu Province reaches only 3,987 ha with productivity of 1.1 tons/ha. Soybean production produced by Bengkulu Province is still lower than national soybean production reaching 2.5-3 ton/ha. To meet the need for soybean for Bengkulu, it must be supplied from other regions such as Java and Lampung Province. In Bengkulu town, cow and buffaloes are slaughtered as many as 10-15 animals per day. Cow blood can be utilized as source of organic fertilizer and contains high nutrients such as N, P, K higher than other types of livestock. It is reported that cow’s blood is sufficient to meet nutrients for plants (BPS, 2014). Due to intrinsic composition, increased total tree

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