Integrated Application of Composted Agricultural Wastes, Chemical Fertilizers and Biofertilizers as an Avenue to Promote Growth, Yield and Quality of Maize in an Arid Agro-Ecosystem

Formulating new integrated plant nutrient management (IPNM) strategies in order to sustain crop production and protect the environment has become an important issue present agricultural system. Therefore, a field study was carried out two seasons 2016 2017 formulate best IPNM for improving growth, yield, quality of maize grown arid agro-ecosystem. The comprised full-dose NPK (T1); composted wastes based on cow manure (T2), poultry (T3), mixture sheep camel (T4) as activators at rate 5 t ha−1 each; half-dose combined with three types (T5) or 10 (T6), (T7), 15 (T8), 20 (T9), either without biofertilizers. results showed that, compared T1, T6 T9 significantly increased different parameters by 11.4–27.3%, 0.8–31.8%, 4.6–17.2%, while T2 decreased these 2.2–17.8%, 3.5–16.7%, 4.5–9.4%, respectively. Seed inoculation biofertilizers 1.8–12.9%, that non-inoculation seed treatment. Principal component analysis strong relationship between treatments T5, T6, T8, inoculation. Further, significant linear observed amount N (R2 = 0.65–0.77), P 0.58–0.71), K 0.63–0.73). These indicated any manage status dynamics soil are promising avenue growth productivity