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Master of Science in Agriculture (Crop Science)

This study was conducted to determine the effect of different levels of Buffalo tea manure in the growth and yield performance of tomato. This study was arranged in a 4x3 Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD). There were four treatments used: Treatment 1 (Pure water), Treatment 2 ( 1 liter of Buffalo tea manure was mixed to 1 liter of water), Treatment 3 (2 liters of tea manure was mixed to 1 liter of water), Treatment 4 (3 liter of Buffalo tea manure was mixed to 1 liters of water). Duncan Multiple range Test (DMRT) was used to compare treatment means.
The collected buffalo manure was fermented in the bucket in five weeks time. Drenching was done when the plant reached one week and lasted for eight weeks. The plant parameters were average plant height, average number of productive lateral stem, average number of flowers per plant, average number of fruits per plot, average weight of fruit per plant, and total yield per treatment. The results revealed that the average plant height per plot (Table 2), average number of productive lateral stems (Table 3), average numbers of flowers per plot (Table 4), average number of fruits per plot (Table 5), average weight of fruits per plot, (Table 6), and yield per treatment (Table 7), show no significant effect.