Claim · model-written summary
Rice straw mulch increased the number of fruits per plant and fruit yield of summer tomato.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- rice straw mulche0
- Outcome
- number of fruits per plant and fruit yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- Farmers practicese1
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Verbatim
e0“rice straw mulch increased number of fruits per plant and fruit yield”
e1“Farmers practices i.e. plots provided with required number of irrigations without mulching (TO1)”
t0“Tomato”
Title
Effect of Mulches on Soil Moisture and Fruit Yield in Summer Tomato
VK Pandey; AC Mishra Agricultural Engineering Today 2012
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Black plastic mulch increased soil moisture content after one week of irrigation in summer tomato compared with farmers practice without mulching.
- Intervention effect Black plastic mulch increased fruit weight of summer tomato compared with farmers practice without mulching.
- Intervention effect Black plastic mulch reduced the number of irrigations in summer tomato compared with farmers practice without mulching.
- Intervention effect Black plastic mulch reduced weed population per m2 area in summer tomato compared with farmers practice without mulching.
- Intervention effect Rice straw mulching exhibited the maximum B:C ratio.
- Recommendation The authors recommend rice straw mulch for large scale application in summer tomato for remunerative yield.