The land was cleared, ploughed and
harrowed to obtain a fine tilt. Planting was carried
out in May, 2009 according to the treatments. The
inter-row spacing of 3m was used during the
experiment. The gross plot size was 8m2 and the net
plot size was 3m2. The cow dung and poultry manure
treatments were applied during land preparation and
the NPK fertilizer was applied in three splits
application. The first application was at planting, the
second was in 2010 and the third in 2011.