Title: Land Management Practices and the Yield of Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) in the Humid Deltaic Tropical Environment of Nigeria
Abstract: The practice of the adoption of different land management systems in the growth of crops have overtime affected the level of crop production in Nigeria, this is because land management system practice determines the amount of nutrient that will either be retained in the soil or loss from the soil.This study was poised to assess the potency of three land management systems in the yield of cassava as a test crop.This was done using the Traditional, (planting on the surface), Ridge and the Mound land management system.To achieve this runoff plots were constructed with the size (5m x 10m) and fertilizer applied to the three treatment plots.The result of the study revealed that the ridge land management system had the highest yield accounting for 156 tubers of cassava which in turn amounts to 35.8t/ha as against the other two land management systems.The study therefore recommended that the ridge land management system should be adopted as a land management practice to increase cassava production which in recent time a foreign earner and for increased production.