Effect of growing media, irrigation regime, fertigation and mulching on productivity of tomato (Lycopersicn esculentum) in naturally-ventilated polyhouses in hills*
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Effect of growing media, irrigation regime, fertigation and mulching on productivity of tomato (Lycopersicn esculentum) in naturally-ventilated polyhouses in hills*
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Creator |
KUMAR, MANISH
KOHLI, U K GUPTA, S K |
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Subject |
WTO; Quality; Productivity; Growing media; Irrigation regimes; Fertigation; Naturally-ventilated polyhouses
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Description |
An experiment was conducted during 2003 and 2004 at vegetable research farm of the University, Nauni for 2 years to see the effect of different agro-techniques especially growing media, irrigation regime, PNS and mulching it is found that Module- 1 comprising soil: compost: sand (2: 1 : 1) growing media at 20 kpa irrigation regime, Integrated Plant Nutrient System with 50 kg NPW ha as basal and fertigation with water soluble fertilizer polyfeed(l9: 19:19) @ 250 kg/ ha starting at third week after transplanting and black polythene mulch recorded the higher productivity of 9.20 kg/ m' and 11.40 kg/m2 in 2003 and 2004 respectively.
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The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences
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Date |
2011-01-11
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
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application/pdf
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http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/3369
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Source |
The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences; Vol 77, No 5 (2007)
0019-5022 |
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Language |
eng
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http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/3369/1393
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Rights |
Copyright (c) 2014 The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences
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