The College of Agriculture discussed a master’s thesis on the effect of planting distances and nitrogen fertilizer sources on the growth, yield, and quality of pearl millet.
The study, presented by graduate student Noora Sabah Khorsheed, aimed to determine the best row spacing for planting pearl millet and its influence on growth and yield traits. It also sought to identify the optimal source of nitrogen fertilizer and its impact on the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the crop, in addition to selecting the best interaction between the study factors and assessing their combined effects on the examined traits.
The study concluded that a 20 cm planting distance combined with liquid nitrogen fertilizer produced the highest average grain yield, while a 50 cm row spacing with nano-nitrogen fertilizer resulted in the highest significant values for most of the studied traits.
