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http://repository.futminna.edu.ng:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/15842| Title: | Marketable yield and fruit quality of two tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum (L.) H. Karst) varieties as influenced by Nitrogen source and organic mulching material in the dry season. |
| Authors: | Ainika, J.N. Yusuf, S.T. Odofin, A.J. Ibrahim, Haruna Aruna, U.L. |
| Keywords: | Fruit quality nitrogen sources organic mulches tomato |
| Issue Date: | 2019 |
| Publisher: | Journal of Organic Agriculture and Environment |
| Citation: | Ainika, J. N., Yusuf, S. T., Odofin, A. J., Ibrahim H and Aruna, U.L. (2019). Marketable yield and fruit quality of two tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum (L.) H. Karst) varieties as influenced by Nitrogen source and organic mulching material in the dry season. Journal of Organic Agriculture and Environment, 7: 1-18 |
| Abstract: | Postharvest losses in tomato can be either quantitative or qualitative. Even though emphasis in crop research nowadays is increasingly shifting from quantity to quality of produce, there is still little improvement in the quality of commercially-produced tomato varieties, hence resulting in high quality losses. Two field trials were conducted in the dry seasons of 2016 and 2017 at the irrigation research farm of the Institute for Agricultural Research, Kadawa, Kano State in the Sudan Savannah ecological zone of Nigeria. Treatments consisted of two tomato varieties (UC82B and Rio-Grande), two organic mulches (rice straw and sugarcane peels) at recommended rate of 5.5 t/ha and 11.0 t/ha (4cm thick), respectively, with a control (No mulch) and three Nitrogen sources (mineral fertilizer, poultry droppings and mineral fertilizer + poultry droppings at recommended rate of 90 kg N/ha with a control (No application). Varieties and nitrogen sources were assigned to the main plots while sugarcane peels mulch was assigned to the subplot and replicated three times. The two varieties did not differ significantly in all the quality traits evaluated. Tomato fruit qualities (appearance, decay, shelf life) as well nutritional qualities and marketable fruit yield were significantly enhanced by nitrogen sourced from organic sources (poultry manure and mineral fertilizer + poultry manure relative to the unfertilized plots (Control) while inorganic nitrogen sources was significantly lower. It can be concluded that poultry droppings at recommended rate of 2.88 T/ha could be applied for enhanced fruit quality and marketable yield of tomato on sustainable basis. The two organic mulching materials are recommended for increased marketable and fruit quality of tomato. For better quality of tomato, any of the varieties could be used in the Sudan ecological zone of Nigeria |
| URI: | http://repository.futminna.edu.ng:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/15842 |
| Appears in Collections: | Horticulture |
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