Abstract
Filed experiment was conducted as Wolaita sodo University, college of agriculture and department of horticulture filed site to evaluate the response of vegetative growth of tomato to different rate of NPS application. The size of total plot is 7.5m X 5.5m (41.25m 2 ) and the size of each plot was 1.50m X 1.50m (2.25m 2 ). Three rate of blended NPS fertilizer at 80kg /ha, 160kg/ha and 240kg/ha with control (check). The experiment was lay out with 12 plots having 3 blokes and each block have four plots. The data on plant height per plant, the primary branches per plant, and the number of leaves per plants were collected from three plants of the middle rows of each plot and subjected to statistical analysis using ANOVA with computing the treatment by least significance difference at 5 %. As the result the number of leaf number shows significant (P 0.05) different. This shows the tomato crop requires high amount NPS supply enough to maintain the branch, plant height, and the leaf number of tomato vegetative growth. Application of 240kg/ha of blended NPS fertilizer did showed significant factors for all growth parameters. Hence, as this research revealed that application of 240kg/ha was the optimum level for effective vegetative performance of tomato. However, to come up concrete recommendation the study should be repeated across the season and up to yield . Keywords : Tomato, blended NPS fertilizer, Plant height, Leaf number, branch number DOI : 10.7176/JNSR/9-24-01 Publication date: December 31 st 2019
Highlights
Introduction1.1 Back Ground of the Study Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L) belongs to the solanacea family and it is originated in Peru and ecodor area and was introduced to Central America and México (Sims, 1980, Narvey et al 2002)
1.1 Back Ground of the Study Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L) belongs to the solanacea family and it is originated in Peru and ecodor area and was introduced to Central America and México (Sims, 1980, Narvey et al 2002).It is warm season crop optimum temperature for growth is 21 -24 and temperature for germination 2630.Tomato requires adequate amount of moisture
It is respond well to NPS fertilizer and adequate fertilizer is important in the tomato growing area
Summary
1.1 Back Ground of the Study Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L) belongs to the solanacea family and it is originated in Peru and ecodor area and was introduced to Central America and México (Sims, 1980, Narvey et al 2002). It is warm season crop optimum temperature for growth is 21 -24 and temperature for germination 2630.Tomato requires adequate amount of moisture. There is no definite time recorded regarding the introduction of cultivated tomato in Ethiopia. As processing crop, it ranks first amount all vegetable in the world. Three major processed products are ,tomato preserved(whole pealed tomato ,2,dried tomatoes(powder, tomato flakes dried tomato),3,tomato based foods (tomato soup, tomato souce,chilisouces,kitchop)(Costa and Hidant than other vegetables (Heuvelink,1989)
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