Abstract
Researchers have substantiated that efficient weeds control play key role in crop growth and development and total dry matter production. For sustainable improvement in crop yield and effective weeds control, long term investigations are needed to quantify the judicious use of resources. To evaluate the integration of tillage practices and weeds control methods in tomato production, an experiment was conducted at farmer field in District Charsadda of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Three tillage practices (Deep, conventional and reduced tillage) and five weeds control methods such as Plastic mulching, news paper, wheat straw and stone as mulch and hand weeding were used. A weed check treatment was included for comparison. Tillage practices have considerably affected weeds density, weed fresh and dry weight Deep tillage reduced weeds density by 11, 17 and 27% at 20, 40 and 60 days after sowing, respectively, as compared to reduced tillage . Likewise, 23, 11 and 17% increase was noted in tomato plant height, branches plant and fruit yield in deep tillage over reduced tillage . Regarding weeds control methods, hand weeding reduced weeds population followed by plastic mulching and stone mulching at 20, 40 and 60 days after sowing. Plant height and fruit yield of tomato was higher in hand weeding followed by plastic mulching as compared to weedy check . All weeds control methods effectively reduced weed density and hence improved tomato yield over weedy check. It is concluded that deep tillage in combination either with hand weeding or plastic mulching is recommended for effective weeds control and improving yield of tomato under agro-ecological conditions of District Charsadda, Pakistan.
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Claim · model-written summary
Deep tillage reduced weed density by 11% at 20 days relative to reduced tillage.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- Deep tillagee0
- Outcome
- weeds densitye0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Value
- 11e0
- Qualifier
- 20, 40 and 60 days after sowinge0
- Comparator
- reduced tillagee0
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Verbatim
e0“Deep tillage reduced weeds density by 11, 17 and 27% at 20, 40 and 60 days after sowing, respectively, as compared to reduced tillage”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Deep tillage reduced weed density by 17% at 40 days relative to reduced tillage.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- Deep tillagee0
- Outcome
- weeds densitye0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Value
- 17e0
- Qualifier
- 20, 40 and 60 days after sowinge0
- Comparator
- reduced tillagee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Deep tillage reduced weeds density by 11, 17 and 27% at 20, 40 and 60 days after sowing, respectively, as compared to reduced tillage”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Deep tillage reduced weed density by 27% at 60 days relative to reduced tillage.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- Deep tillagee0
- Outcome
- weeds densitye0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Value
- 27%e0
- Qualifier
- 20, 40 and 60 days after sowinge0
- Comparator
- reduced tillagee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Deep tillage reduced weeds density by 11, 17 and 27% at 20, 40 and 60 days after sowing, respectively, as compared to reduced tillage”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Deep tillage increased tomato height by 23% relative to reduced tillage.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- deep tillagee0
- Outcome
- plant heighte0
- Direction
- increasee0
- Value
- 23e0
- Comparator
- reduced tillagee0
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e0“23, 11 and 17% increase was noted in tomato plant height, branches plant and fruit yield in deep tillage over reduced tillage”
Claim · model-written summary
Deep tillage increased branches per plant by 11% relative to reduced tillage.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- deep tillagee0
- Outcome
- branches plante0
- Direction
- increasee0
- Value
- 11e0
- Comparator
- reduced tillagee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“23, 11 and 17% increase was noted in tomato plant height, branches plant and fruit yield in deep tillage over reduced tillage”
Claim · model-written summary
Deep tillage increased fruit yield by 17% relative to reduced tillage.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- deep tillagee0
- Outcome
- fruit yielde0
- Direction
- increasee0
- Value
- 17%e0
- Comparator
- reduced tillagee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“23, 11 and 17% increase was noted in tomato plant height, branches plant and fruit yield in deep tillage over reduced tillage”
Claim · model-written summary
Hand weeding reduced weed population most, followed by plastic and stone mulching.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- hand weedinge0
- Outcome
- weeds populatione0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Comparator
- plastic mulching and stone mulchinge0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“hand weeding reduced weeds population followed by plastic mulching and stone mulching at 20, 40 and 60 days after sowing”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Tomato plant height and fruit yield were higher with hand weeding, followed by plastic mulch, than a weedy check.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- hand weedinge0
- Outcome
- Plant height and fruit yielde0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- weedy checke0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Plant height and fruit yield of tomato was higher in hand weeding followed by plastic mulching as compared to weedy check”
Claim · model-written summary
Weed control methods reduced weed density relative to a weedy check.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- weeds control methodse0
- Outcome
- weed densitye0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Comparator
- weedy checke0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“All weeds control methods effectively reduced weed density and hence improved tomato yield over weedy check”
Claim · model-written summary
Weed control methods improved tomato yield relative to a weedy check.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- weeds control methodse0
- Outcome
- tomato yielde0
- Direction
- improvede0
- Comparator
- weedy checke0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“All weeds control methods effectively reduced weed density and hence improved tomato yield over weedy check”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend deep tillage with hand weeding or plastic mulch for weed control and tomato yield in Charsadda.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Outcome
- deep tillage in combination either with hand weeding or plastic mulchinge0
- Setting
- District Charsadda, Pakistane0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“deep tillage in combination either with hand weeding or plastic mulching is recommended for effective weeds control and improving yield of tomato under agro-ecological conditions of District Charsadda, Pakistan”
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