TITLE:
Liming and Mineral Fertilization of Acid Soils in Maize Crop within the Savannah of Southwestern of Democratic Republic of Congo
AUTHORS:
Jean Pierre Kabongo Tshiabukole, Gertrude Pongi Khonde, André Matondo Phongo, Nlandu Ngoma, Roger Kizungu Vumilia, Amand Mbuya Kankolongo
KEYWORDS:
Liming, Mineral Fertilizer, Acidic Soil, Zea mays, INERA
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.9 No.3,
March
4,
2022
ABSTRACT: This paper mainly investigated the interactive effects between liming and mineral fertilization in the acid soils in maize crop of the south-west of the DRC, two factors including liming as main factor, at two levels (with and without) and three levels of mineral fertilizers (controls without fertilizer, NPK 12-24-12, NPK12-24-12 + Urea 46%) as secondary factor, were used in a split-plot design with three replications. The results showed that the soils neither limed nor fertilized considerably reduced (p