Abstract
Present experiment was conducted in participatory mode among ten tomato growers of Chatra district of Jharkhand during late Rabi of 2009–10 to summer 2010 including three technology options viz., Farmers practices i.e. plots provided with required number of irrigations without mulching (TO1), use of black plastic mulch (TO2) and use of rice straw mulch applied @ 10 t/ha to maintain 5 cm thickness (TO3). Mulched plots were also irrigated whenever required to maintain soil moisture. Data were recorded on moisture content after one week of irrigation (%), number of irrigations during 130 days of crop duration, irrigation intervals (days) required to maintain at least 20–22% soil moisture, weed population per m2 area, fruit weight (g), fruit yield per plant (kg), yield (q/ha), and C:B ratio. Results indicated that black plastic mulch was promising for increasing soil moisture content after one week of irrigation, fruit weight and reducing number of irrigations and weed population per m2 area. However, rice straw mulch increased number of fruits per plant and fruit yield. Rice straw mulching also exhibited maximum B:C ratio due to higher fruit yield and lower initial input required in application of this locally available mulch material. Therefore, it was recommended for large scale application in summer tomato crop for remunerative yield.
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Black plastic mulch increased soil moisture content after one week of irrigation in summer tomato compared with farmers practice without mulching.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- black plastic mulche0
- Outcome
- soil moisture content after one week of irrigatione0
- Direction
- increasinge0
- Comparator
- Farmers practicese1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“black plastic mulch was promising for increasing soil moisture content after one week of irrigation, fruit weight and reducing number of irrigations and weed population per m2 area”
e1“Farmers practices i.e. plots provided with required number of irrigations without mulching (TO1)”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Black plastic mulch increased fruit weight of summer tomato compared with farmers practice without mulching.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- black plastic mulche0
- Outcome
- fruit weighte0
- Direction
- increasinge0
- Comparator
- Farmers practicese1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“black plastic mulch was promising for increasing soil moisture content after one week of irrigation, fruit weight and reducing number of irrigations and weed population per m2 area”
e1“Farmers practices i.e. plots provided with required number of irrigations without mulching (TO1)”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Black plastic mulch reduced the number of irrigations in summer tomato compared with farmers practice without mulching.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- black plastic mulche0
- Outcome
- number of irrigationse0
- Direction
- reducinge0
- Comparator
- Farmers practicese1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“black plastic mulch was promising for increasing soil moisture content after one week of irrigation, fruit weight and reducing number of irrigations and weed population per m2 area”
e1“Farmers practices i.e. plots provided with required number of irrigations without mulching (TO1)”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Black plastic mulch reduced weed population per m2 area in summer tomato compared with farmers practice without mulching.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- black plastic mulche0
- Interactor
- weede0weed
- Outcome
- weed population per m2 areae0
- Direction
- reducinge0
- Comparator
- Farmers practicese1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“black plastic mulch was promising for increasing soil moisture content after one week of irrigation, fruit weight and reducing number of irrigations and weed population per m2 area”
e1“Farmers practices i.e. plots provided with required number of irrigations without mulching (TO1)”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Rice straw mulch increased the number of fruits per plant and fruit yield of summer tomato.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- rice straw mulche0
- Outcome
- number of fruits per plant and fruit yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- Farmers practicese1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“rice straw mulch increased number of fruits per plant and fruit yield”
e1“Farmers practices i.e. plots provided with required number of irrigations without mulching (TO1)”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Rice straw mulching exhibited the maximum B:C ratio.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- Rice straw mulchinge0
- Outcome
- B:C ratioe0
- Direction
- maximume0
- Comparator
- Farmers practicese1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Rice straw mulching also exhibited maximum B:C ratio”
e1“Farmers practices i.e. plots provided with required number of irrigations without mulching (TO1)”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend rice straw mulch for large scale application in summer tomato for remunerative yield.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Outcome
- remunerative yielde0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“it was recommended for large scale application in summer tomato crop for remunerative yield”
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