Claim · model-written summary
Seedling guava yields were comparable with overseas countries.
- Taxon
- guavas
Psidium guajavae0 - Outcome
- yieldse0
- Direction
- comparablee0
- Comparator
- overseas countriese0
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Verbatim
e0“seedling guavas produce attractive yields comparable with overseas countries”
Title
Growth, yield and preliminary selection of seedling guavas in Queensland
KR Chapman; B Paxton; J Saranah; et al. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture and Animal Husbandry 1981. doi:10.1071/ea9810119
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Observation First-crop mean yield was 30.72 kg/tree after 18 months.
- Observation Second-year yield was 45.6 kg/tree.
- Observation Third-year yield was 77.9 kg/tree.
- Observation First-crop yield equated to 24.7 tonnes ha-1 at 805 trees ha-1.
- Observation Second-crop yield equated to 37.2 tonnes ha-1 at 805 trees ha-1.
- Observation Third-crop yield equated to 61.5 tonnes ha-1 at 805 trees ha-1.
- Observation Third crop gross returns were around $15,000 ha-1.
- Observation Seedlines did not differ in annual and accumulated yields, fruit number or fruitfulness indices.
- Association Fruit yields and relative butt-area increase varied by cropping year.
- Association Fruit number, butt-area-normalized yield and fruit number per kg varied by year.
- Association Fruit number per kg varied among seedlines.
- Mechanism Water rationing in spring of the second crop year was attributed as the cause of variation.
- Observation Four individuals were selected for processing assessment.
- Observation Two individuals were selected for fresh-fruit market testing.