Yield and productivity of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) through the use of green manure

Abstract

The objective of this research was to evaluate the watermelon yield, submitted to different
types of green manure. This experiment was conducted at the State University of Bahia
(UNEB) Campus III, in a Flossic Neosol. The experimental design was a randomized block
design with five treatments and four replications. The treatments consisted of: T1 - conventional
management, T2 - maize, millet, forage sorghum, gray mucuna, Crotalaria spectabilis and
pork bean; T3 - corn, forage sorghum, millet, sunflower, leucena, C. spectabilis, guandu, pork
bean; T4 - corn, sunflower, leucine, C. spectabilis, pork, pigeon pea, millet, forage sorghum,
gray mucuna, cowpea; T5 - sunflower, leucine, corn, gray mucuna, pork beans, cowpea beans,
C. spectabilis, guandu, Crotalaria juncea, black mucuna, forage sorghum and T1 - Witness.
According to the characteristics analyzed, the best watermelon performance was observed
when it was submitted to T5.