Abstract:
This study was conducted to evaluate the growth and yield of pole snap bean varieties mixed with pine wood strips during seed storage; determine the best amount of pine wood strips on germination, growth and yield of snap beans; determine the interaction effect of variety and pine wood strips on germination, growth and yield of pole snap bean; and determine the ROCE of growing pole snap bean mixed with pine wood strips during seed storage.
Mixing pine wood strips in a kilogram of pole snap bean seeds did not affect all the parameters measured in this study except the percent emergence of pole snap bean. Mixing the seeds with 12.5g of pine wood strips resulted in highest percent emergence and ROCE but comparable to those unmixed seeds and those with 50g of pine wood strips. All varieties evaluated did not differ in their growth and yield except for percent emergence, number of seeds per pod and pod length and width. Maroon had the highest percent emergence together with Stone Hill black and Black Valentine. Black Valentine and Stone Hill black had longer and wider pods than Burik and Maroon. Growing all the varieties resulted in positive ROCE but growing Stone Hill black mixed with 50 g of PWS per kg of seeds at storage recorded the highest ROCE (34.77%).
