Abstract
Water shortage is one of the major constraints for production of horticultural crops in arid and semiarid regions. A field experiment was conducted to determine irrigation water and fertilizer use efficiency, growth and yield of tomato under clay pot irrigation at the experimental site of Sekota Dryland Agricultural Research Center, Lalibela, Ethiopia in 2009/10. The experiment comprised of five treatments including furrow irrigated control and clay pot irrigation with different plant population and fertilization methods, which were arranged in Randomized Complete Block Design with three replications. The highest total and marketable fruit yields were obtained from clay pot irrigation combined with application of nitrogen fertilizer with irrigation water irrespective of difference in plant population. The clay pot irrigation had seasonal water use of up to 143.71 mm, which resulted in significantly higher water use efficiency (33.62 kg m-3) as compared to the furrow irrigation, which had a seasonal water use of 485.50 mm, and a water use efficiency of 6.67 kg m-3. Application of nitrogen fertilizer with irrigation water in clay pots improved fertilizer use efficiency of tomato by up to 52% than band application with furrow or clay pot irrigation. Thus, clay pot irrigation with 33,333 plants ha-1 and nitrogen fertilizer application with irrigation water in clay pots was the best method for increasing the yield of tomato while economizing the use of water and nitrogen fertilizer in a semiarid environment.
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Claims 5
Claim · model-written summary
Clay pot irrigation combined with nitrogen fertilizer applied with irrigation water gave the highest total and marketable tomato fruit yields.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume4 - Treatment
- clay pot irrigation combined with application of nitrogen fertilizer with irrigation watere0
- Outcome
- total and marketable fruit yieldse0
- Direction
- higheste0
- Setting
- Sekota Dryland Agricultural Research Center, Lalibela, Ethiopiae4
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“The highest total and marketable fruit yields were obtained from clay pot irrigation combined with application of nitrogen fertilizer with irrigation water irrespective of difference in plant population”
e4“A field experiment was conducted to determine irrigation water and fertilizer use efficiency, growth and yield of tomato under clay pot irrigation at the experimental site of Sekota Dryland Agricultural Research Center, Lalibela, Ethiopia in 2009/10”
Claim · model-written summary
Clay pot irrigation had significantly higher water use efficiency than furrow irrigation, 33.62 kg m-3 against 6.67 kg m-3.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume4
- Treatment
- clay pot irrigatione1
- Outcome
- water use efficiencye1
- Direction
- highere1
- Value
- 33.62 kg m-3e1
- Comparator
- furrow irrigatione1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“The clay pot irrigation had seasonal water use of up to 143.71 mm, which resulted in significantly higher water use efficiency (33.62 kg m-3) as compared to the furrow irrigation, which had a seasonal water use of 485.50 mm, and a water use efficiency of 6.67 kg m-3”
e4“A field experiment was conducted to determine irrigation water and fertilizer use efficiency, growth and yield of tomato under clay pot irrigation at the experimental site of Sekota Dryland Agricultural Research Center, Lalibela, Ethiopia in 2009/10”
Claim · model-written summary
Clay pot irrigation had lower seasonal water use than furrow irrigation, 143.71 mm against 485.50 mm.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume4
- Treatment
- clay pot irrigatione1
- Outcome
- seasonal water usee1
- Direction
- lowerinferrede1
- Value
- 143.71 mme1
- Qualifier
- 485.50 mme1
- Comparator
- furrow irrigatione1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“The clay pot irrigation had seasonal water use of up to 143.71 mm, which resulted in significantly higher water use efficiency (33.62 kg m-3) as compared to the furrow irrigation, which had a seasonal water use of 485.50 mm, and a water use efficiency of 6.67 kg m-3”
e4“A field experiment was conducted to determine irrigation water and fertilizer use efficiency, growth and yield of tomato under clay pot irrigation at the experimental site of Sekota Dryland Agricultural Research Center, Lalibela, Ethiopia in 2009/10”
Claim · model-written summary
Nitrogen fertilizer applied with irrigation water in clay pots improved tomato fertilizer use efficiency by up to 52% compared with band application.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume2
- Treatment
- Application of nitrogen fertilizer with irrigation water in clay potse2
- Outcome
- fertilizer use efficiencye2
- Direction
- improvede2
- Value
- 52%e2
- Comparator
- band application with furrow or clay pot irrigatione2
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e2“Application of nitrogen fertilizer with irrigation water in clay pots improved fertilizer use efficiency of tomato by up to 52% than band application with furrow or clay pot irrigation”
e4“A field experiment was conducted to determine irrigation water and fertilizer use efficiency, growth and yield of tomato under clay pot irrigation at the experimental site of Sekota Dryland Agricultural Research Center, Lalibela, Ethiopia in 2009/10”
Claim · model-written summary
Clay pot irrigation with 33,333 plants per ha and nitrogen applied with irrigation water is the best method for increasing tomato yield in a semiarid environment.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume3
- Treatment
- clay pot irrigation with 33,333 plants ha-1e3
- Outcome
- increasing the yield of tomatoe3
- Qualifier
- while economizing the use of water and nitrogen fertilizere3
- Setting
- in a semiarid environmente3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e3“clay pot irrigation with 33,333 plants ha-1 and nitrogen fertilizer application with irrigation water in clay pots was the best method for increasing the yield of tomato while economizing the use of water and nitrogen fertilizer in a semiarid environment”
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