The effect of maize yield to fertilizer type, soil type, and plot type using multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA)

Abstract

The research shows the significant of modern farming over traditional farming by studying multiple variables simultaneously so that practitioners will have high (yield) result. It examine the effect of maize yield to fertilizer, soil and plot type using one way multivariate analysis of variance. ANOVA test differences among various group of means while MANOVA test differences between two or more groups of vectors of mean. Gombe state maize production estimate from 2009 to 2019 was collected from ministry of Agriculture and animal husbandry for sassakawa and cultural practices. The result satisfied the assumptions of normality and homogeneity of variance. Also multivariate analysis of variance shows that all the four statistics wilk’s lambda, pillai’s trace, hotelling lawley trace and roy’s largest root indicated that maize yield has significance effect to fertilizer type, soil type and plot type using either of the two practices and when transformed the data to upper tail exact F – test give the same interpretations. Hence using maize yield in a classify way and a very concise land give an optimal results depending on which variety you used and also hold for large area of land.