GROWTH AND YIELD OF PECHAY (Brassica rapa L.) AS AFFECTED BY DIFFERENT LEVELS OF GOAT MANURE TEA

Goat manure tea is one of the richest and most nutritious fertilizer for plants proven to be a highly nutritive organic fertilizer and a powerful growth promoter over conventional or other types of composts. Thus, this experiment was conducted to evaluate the growth and development of Pechay (Brassica rapa L.) as affected by different levels of goat manure tea. The experiment was carried out using Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with four treatments and three replications. The treatments were as follows: T1 - Control (no application); T2 - 10 % of goat manure tea; T3 - 20% of goat manure tea; T4 -30% of goat manure tea. The results disclosed that there were no significant effects across treatment means on the plant height, length of leaves, plant weight and yield of pechay as affected by the application of the different levels of goat manure tea. However, goat manure tea showed good potential at (T2) - 10 % level was the optimum application with a yield increment of 25% percent over the control (T1).