Claim · model-written summary
Drip irrigation at 80% ET gave higher tomato fruit yield than surface irrigation.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- Drip irrigation at 80% evapo-transpiration (ET)e0
- Outcome
- fruit yielde0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- 45.57 tonnes/hae0
- Qualifier
- 29.43 tonnes/hae0
- Comparator
- surface irrigatione0
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Verbatim
e0“Drip irrigation at 80% evapo-transpiration (ET) crop based on pan evaporation applied gave significantly higher fruit yield (45.57 tonnes/ha) compared with the surface irrigation (29.43 tonnes/ha).”
t0“tomato”
Title
Rajbir Singh; Satyendra Kumar; Dhananjay D. Nangare; et al. African Journal of Agricultural Research 2009. doi:10.5897/ajar.9000181
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Black polyethylene mulch plus drip irrigation raised fruit yield to 57.87 tonnes/ha.
- Intervention effect Drip irrigation alone and with mulch significantly increased plant height, leaf area index, and dry matter production.
- Intervention effect Drip irrigation alone and with mulch significantly increased fruit weight and yield.
- Observation Water use efficiency was 0.97 tonne/ha-cm under drip irrigation alone.
- Observation Water use efficiency was 1.23 tonne/ha-cm under drip irrigation with mulch.
- Observation Water use efficiency was 0.42 tonne/ha-cm under surface irrigation.
- Observation At 80% ET, drip irrigation had higher net returns of 34431 Rs/ha.
- Observation At 80% ET, drip irrigation had benefit cost ratio 1.76.
- Observation Drip irrigation at 80% ET with mulch had maximum net returns of 51386 Rs/ha.
- Observation Drip irrigation at 80% ET with mulch had benefit cost ratio 2.03.
- Intervention effect Drip irrigation saved 38% water versus surface irrigation.
- Intervention effect Drip irrigation gave 55% higher fruit yield than surface irrigation.