Claim · model-written summary
MT 56 had highest gross margin and marketable fruit and lowest disease severity.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Material
- MT 56e0
- Outcome
- highest gross margin and marketable fruit and least disease severitye0
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Verbatim
e0“Cultivar MT 56 had the highest gross margin and marketable fruit and least disease severity”
t0“Tomato”
Title
Evaluation of Horticultural Practices for Sustainable Tomato Production in Eastern Uganda
Sharon M. Tusiime; Gail R. Nonnecke; Dorothy M. Masinde; et al. HortScience 2019. doi:10.21273/hortsci14277-19
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation MT 56 with fungicide and soil mulch had the highest marketable fruit number and weight and positive gross margin in season one.
- Observation MT 56 without fungicide and mulch was the only treatment with positive gross margin in season two.
- Intervention effect Fungicides reduced early blight severity for all cultivars in season one.
- Intervention effect Fungicides reduced early blight severity for Heinz 1370 and Nuru F1 in season two.
- Intervention effect Fungicides did not affect MT 56 disease severity in season two.
- Intervention effect Soil mulch reduced early blight severity.
- Intervention effect Purchased soil mulch decreased gross margin.
- Intervention effect Staking did not affect yield or disease severity.
- Intervention effect Staking decreased gross margin.
- Recommendation Authors recommend making MT 56 seed available to small tomato farmers in Uganda.