Influence of Organic Waste on Vegetable Performance and Healthy Livelihood in Minna Niger state.

Abstract

The increasing volume of waste generation collected and disposed daily complicates management of solid waste by relevant agency like Niger State Environmental Protection Agency (NISEPA). In addition, the impact of waste on the natural environment and human livelihood require identification of cost effective ways for sustainable municipal waste management in Nigeria. This signal the need for identifying environment friendly initiative and local solution to address municipal solid waste problem for enhance environmental quality and human livelihood. A Research field was secured Pago, Minna, Niger State which is located in the Guinea Savannah belt of Nigeria. Poultry droppings, decomposed household manure and NPK treatment were used. The experimental field was divided into three replications and four treatments on each replication making a total of 12 plots on the experimental plot. The treatments were allotted using Randomize Complete Block Design (RCBD). The result depicts variation in plant height and number of leaves at 50% with different organic waste treatment. Poultry dropping records the highest height and number of leaves as waste manure competes fairly well with NPK fertilizer treatment. In addition, it was shown that the treatment do not devoid the concentration of any nutritional components while the anti nutritional analysis proved that NPK had higher oxalate content than control and organic traits. Heavy metals reaffirms that lead and caldium are within safe limits while mercury is generally high beyond permissible value for the entire treatment. Adoption of this organic manure for cultivation does not only enhance environment quality and attainment of food security but will contribute to local economic development, poverty alleviation and social inclusion as well as, healthy livelihood in particular. Its recommended to incooperate decomposed waste into inorganic manure and poultry dropping to minimize mercury levels in vegetables