TITLE:
Factors Affecting the Quality of Peanut Seeds
AUTHORS:
Rasoazanakolona Voahanginirina
KEYWORDS:
Groundnut, Fertilizers, Statistical Analysis, Correlation, Components, Seeds
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.7 No.3,
March
16,
2020
ABSTRACT: Agricultural research has shown that depending on the variety, groundnuts can be more or less sensitive to fertilizer inputs. There are varieties indifferent to fertilizer inputs and varieties that are better able to receive this mode of treatment for a given site. The response to fertilization can be manifested in different ways: increasing the number of seeds, increasing the weight of seeds, increasing the oil content, improving the morphological or physiological characters of the plant; similarly, the concentrations of mineral elements in the leaves or the mineral element content of the seed, may be a consequence of the multiform response to fertilization. In the present work, we have been able to observe the antagonistic or synergistic effects of several nutrients of the seed peanut. Some of these effects have already been mentioned by other authors (for example, correlation between fats and protein materials). The study was conducted as a result of data analysis of the chemical characteristics of the seed according to appropriate fertilization.