Effect of Organic manure on the Nutritional Composition of Rosselle Seed, Leaves and Calyx in Makurdi, Benue state Nigeria
Sr No:
Page No:
26-32
Language:
English
Authors:
Madina, P.*, Akinyemi, B. K., Esang D.M., Chikowa N.
Received:
2025-02-24
Accepted:
2025-03-06
Published Date:
2025-03-09
Abstract:
The experiment was carried out at the Teaching and Research farm of Joseph
Sarwuan Tarka University Makurdi, Makurdi (6° 11’-7° 41’N Latitude and 7° 21’ - 8° 37’E
Longitude). The experiment aimed to investigate the effect of effects of organic manure on the
nutritional composition of rosselle seed, leaves and calyx in Makurdi, Benue state Nigeria. The
experiment was done in the laboratory of Animal Production Laboratory of Joseph Sarwuan
Tarka University Makurdi. The treatments used were Seeds, Leaves and Calyx of rosselle from
NG001(Dark red), NG002 (Wine red) and NG003 (Light red) accession that was grown using
organic nutrient source of Poultry droppings, Cow dung, Compost and Control, the nutritional
components that was determined from the seeds, leaves and calyx were moisture, crude fat, ash,
crude fiber, crude protein and carbohydrate through the following methods; Moisture Content
Oven Drying Method was used, Crude Fiber Weende Method, Lipids Soxhlet Extraction, Ash
Dry Ashing, Protein Kjeldahl Method and Carbohydrate Phenol-sulfuric acid was used. From
the result obtained significant difference (P<0.05) was recorded were NG001 (Dark red)
accessions had higher nutritional content when compared with other accession used with
NG003 (light red) recording the least. On the nutritional content the Calyx recorded the highest
in carbohydrate (60.21) content with Leaves recorded the highest in protein content (11.26),
moisture content (10.74), crude fat (8.21), ash (7.24) and crude fibre (6.24) while Seed recorded
the least in all the nutritional content in NG001. From the result obtained farmers in these
location are advice to used to use poultry dropping in cultivating roseelle as it add to the
nutritional content of the plants thereby improving human health.
Keywords:
Nutritional content, Accessions, Seeds, Leaves, Calyx.