Influence of organic amendments on growth and yield attributes in poly house grown tomato
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.48165/ijah.2023.5.1.4Keywords:
Tomato, BD 500, BD 501, Dashparni, Silica, BiodynamicAbstract
The research findings indicated that diverse combinations of biodynamic, silica and Dashparni have remarkable influence on the growth and yield characteristics of the tomato Ajeet variety cultivated under protected conditions. From a range of treatments and combinations of treatments, treatment T10 (BD 500 @7 5g/ha + BD 501 @ 2.5g/ha + Silica @ 1% + Dashparni @10%) produced the highest plant height at 30 DAT, 60 DAT and at final harvest (44.23, 88.56 and 244.90 cm, respectively), leaf area (254.8 cm2), minimum day to flowering (42.66) and least day to harvest (89.00%), maximum number of branches (25). The maximum fruit length of 6.66 cm, maximum fruit diameter of 5.20 cm, maximum fruit volume of 115.33 cc, maximum fruit weight of 109.26 g, number of fruits per plant (46.46), yield per plant of 5.05 kg, yield per square metre of 11.23 kg and yield per acre of 44.94 t were attained in T10 (BD 500 @ 75 g/ha + BD 501 @ 2.5 g/ha + Silica @ 1% + Dashparni @ 10%) compared to the control. Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is the most commonly and widely grown in the world, next to potato (Bertin and Genard, 2018). It has the chromosomal number 2n=24 and belongs to the family Solanaceae, which embraces more than 3000 species, including significant food, spice and drug plants. It was domesticated from a wild ancestor of Lycopersion esculentum sub. species cerasifoeme in the Andean area of South America and in Mexico (Bai and Lindhout, 2007) and the tomato originated in Peru in South America while the name of the crop came from the Aztec word “tomato.” It contains a significant amount of lycopene, minerals, essential amino acids, sugars, dietary fibres, vitamin B and C, iron and phosphorus (Agarwal and Rao, 2000); hence, due to
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