Claim · model-written summary
Black mulch gave a maximum fruit yield of 2.66 kg/plant.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- black polythene mulche0
- Outcome
- fruit yielde0
- Direction
- Maximume0
- Value
- 2.66 kg/plante0
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Verbatim
e0“Maximum fruit yield (2.66 kg/plant and 851.59 q/ha) was recorded with black polythene mulch.”
t0“TOMATO”
Title
RESPONSE OF HYBRID TOMATO TO DRIP IRRIGATION SCHEDULING AND PLASTIC MULCHING
Anant Bahadur; T.D. Lama; Ashutosh Rai; et al. Vegetable Science 2009
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Full irrigation and black mulch gave significantly higher tomato chlorophyll content, fluorescence and PSII quantum yield.
- Intervention effect Full drip irrigation increased tomato dry matter production by 33.2% compared with half volume.
- Intervention effect Black polythene mulch increased tomato dry matter by 94.7% over unmulched controls.
- Intervention effect Full irrigation produced significantly higher fruit yield of 2.71 kg/plant.
- Intervention effect Full irrigation produced significantly higher fruit yield of 847.52 q/ha.
- Intervention effect Black mulch gave a maximum fruit yield of 851.59 q/ha.
- Intervention effect Half irrigation reduced weed growth by 25% compared with full irrigation.
- Intervention effect All plastic mulches significantly controlled weeds.
- Intervention effect Black mulch reduced weeds by 89% over control.
- Intervention effect Half irrigation gave maximum water use efficiency of 49.60 kg/mm-ha.
- Intervention effect Black mulch gave the maximum mulch-group water use efficiency of 46.03 kg/mm-ha.