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2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
12. Enhancing Food Production in Semi-arid Coastal Lowlands Kenya Through Water Harvesting Technologies
verfasst von : Musyimi B. Muli, Ruth N. Musila
Erschienen in: Adapting African Agriculture to Climate Change
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Abstract
Two studies were conducted during the long rains of 2010 and 2011 and short rains of 2011 and 2012 to evaluate the performance of drought tolerant maize varieties under different water harvesting technologies (zai pits, tied ridges and conventional). The treatments were laid out in a split plot design with water harvesting methods as the main plots and maize varieties as the sub-plots. Four maize varieties (DK8031, DUMA 43, KDV1 and PH4) were evaluated under the three water harvesting technologies for the first experiment. For the second experiment, four maize plant population treatments of 3, 5, 7 and 9 plants per pit were used. Maize variety DUMA 43 was used alongside the four plant populations. The results for both experiments indicated that the maize yields in zai pits and tied ridges treatments were significantly (P < 0.05) higher than conventional treatment and the population of 5 plants per pit had significantly (P < 0.05) higher grain yield than the rest of treatments.