JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN FORESTRY, WILDLIFE AND ENVIRONMENT, VOLUME 13, NO. 2, JUNE, 2021 EFFECT OF COCONUT COIR AND POULTRY MANURE ON THE GROWTH AND YIELD OF Amaranthus hybridus L. *Ibiyeye D. E. 1 , Adedipe J.O. 1 , Olunloyo O.O. 1 , Akala A.O. 2 , 1 Federal College of Forestry, P.M.B. 5087 Jericho, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria 2 Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria *Correspondent Author: mcdare005@gmail.com ABSTRACT This study was carried out to determine the effect of coconut coir and poultry manure on the growth and yield of amaranthus hybridus L. The parameters accessed are germination percentage, growth performance and yield of Amaranthus hybridus L. The experiment was laid out in Completely Randomized Design consisting of two (2) treatments and control, each with fifteen (15) replicates. The data collected were subjected to Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The means were further separated using Least Significant Difference (L.S.D) where significant differences were observed. The data collection from the experiment was taken for seven (7) weeks. The results showed that coconut coir had the highest mean value of 14.71 mm, 10, 0.4290mm and 3.600mm for the plant height, for number of leaves, stem girth, and for weight of yield (harvested Amaranthus hybridus L.) respectively at seventh (7th) week. The results of analysis of variance indicated significant differences in plant height, number of leaves, and stem girth in coconut husk among treatments applied at 0.05 level of probability. The results obtained for analysis of variance for (yield) weights of harvested Amaranthus hybridus L (yield) revealed significant difference in different media with the value of (2.000g of for top soil, 3.600g for coconut coir and 2.267g for poultry manure) among treatments applied at 0.05 level of probability. Keywords: Amaranthus hybridus, Coconut Coir, Growth, Yield, Treatment INTRODUCTION Amaranthus hybridus L. is an important vegetable in human diet as a source of nutrients such as vitamin, minerals, sugar, water, protein and fibre needed for healthy body growth and sustenance (Inyang et al., 2018). The young leaves and stems are boiled as greens. A hybridus is grown as a soup vegetable or for boiled salad greens. Vegetables are those herbaceous plants whose part or parts are eaten as supporting food for main dishes and they may be aromatic, bitter or tasteless such as broccoli, cabbage, radishes, garlic and arugula (Adam and Camen, 2011). 105 Journal of Research in Forestry, Wildlife & Environment Vol. 13(2) June, 2021 E-mail: jrfwe2019@gmail.com; jfewr@yahoo.com http://www.ajol.info/index.php/jrfwe jfewr ©2020 - jfewr Publications ISBN: 2141 – 1778 Ibiyeye et al., 2021 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by AJOL - African Journals Online