Efficacy of different media carriers on tomatoes production in greenhouse condition
Wydanie: 4/2024
Otrzymano: Marzec 8, 2024
Zaakceptowano: Listopad 5, 2024
Opublikowano online: Listopad 9, 2024
Autorzy:
Z. Ul Haq, R. Ahmad, J. Sial, A. Saad, A. Ali Khan
Kategorie: Agricultural, Horticulture and forestry
DOI: 10.5601/jelem.2024.29.1.3309
Abstrakt:
Hydroponics agriculture is the science of growing plants in inert media such as coco cake/powder, gravel, sand, peat, vermiculite, pumice, or sawdust, rather than soil. Essential nutrients for normal growth of plant are provided through irrigation. Conventionally growing media (coco cake) imported from Srilanka are used for off-season vegetable production in greenhouse conditions. Unavailability of indigenous media carrier at the farm level enforced researchers to developed new media carriers. Keeping in view the above-mentioned problems an experiment was conducted for development and testing the feasibility of different types of media carriers for tomato production at Institute of Hydroponic Agriculture Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan over the period of two growing seasons employing three different treatments (media carrier) viz. T1 (bottle), T2 (slab), and T3 (pipe). The comparison of these media carriers was made on the base of plant height, stem diameter, number of flower trusses, number of clusters, nodal distance, total number of fruits, and total yields of the plant. The experimental results shown that the media carriers have a significant (P<0.05) effect on the tomato plant and its yield. It was concluded from the experiment that treatment T2 containing slab shaped media carrier had the best performance in all above mentioned parameters for the tomato growth under greenhouse conditions in both years.
Cytacja:
JELEM / HARVARD
MDPI
AMA
CHICAGO
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