Quality of Yellow Bell Pepper Fruits Cultivated in Fertilized Soil with Yellow Water and Cassava Wastewater

J G Ramos,R F B Guimarães,M T C C Do Nascimento,M De O Pereira,J S Dos Santos,N C De Araujo,V E Borges

doi:10.5539/jas.v9n10p213

Abstract

Currently there is a great need for reuse of water in agricultural activity, aiming at reducing environmental impacts and production costs. The objective of this study was to evaluate the fruit production of hybrid Satrapo bell pepper, under fertilization with yellow water and cassava wastewater. The experiment was conducted in a greenhouse located at Campina Grande city, PB. The experimental design was completely randomized, with eight treatments and five replications, totaling 40 experimental plots. The treatments were characterized by fertilization with cattle manure (EB); NPK; human urine (HU); cassava wastewater (M); cassava wastewater and human urine (UH+M); the double volume of human urine (2xUH); the double volume of cassava wastewater (2xM); and the double volume of human urine and cassava wastewater (2xUH+M). At 60 day after transplanting (DAT) were evaluated the diameter, thickness of mesocarp, fresh and dry phytomass and number of lobes of yellow bell pepper fruits.According to the results, there were significant differences in the variables analyzed due to the treatments applied. The treatment corresponding to 2xM provided the highest results for length, diameter, thickness of the mesocarp, fresh and dry phytomass of the bell pepper fruits. On the contrary, 2xUH was the treatment that provided the lowest values for these variables and provided the highest number of lobes.

Highlights

The bell pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) is among the main vegetables grown in Brazil, it is a food with high nutritional value, source of several vitamins, such as A, C and E, medicinal characteristic due to the high content of antioxidant properties (Tanwar et al, 2013)
The objective of this work was to evaluate hybrid yellow bell pepperfruits Satrapo (Capsicum Annuum L.) production cultivated under protected environment and submitted to fertilization with yellow water and cassava wastewater
The experiment was conducted between October and December 2016 under protected environment on Campus I of the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), in the city of Campina Grande-PB (7°13′50′′S; 35°52′52′′W and 551 m a.s.l.)

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Introduction

Among the characteristics of the bell pepper fruit, considered extremely important for commercialization, the length and diameter stand out (Blat et al, 2007). These characteristics are still important in defining the shape of these fruits that it’s fundamental to determine the group to which they belong whether conical, rectangular or square. According to Bertoncini (2014), the reuse of waste in agriculture has become a viable practice to bring varied environmental benefits by the exploration of organic material, the return of biogeochemical elements to their respective cycles, and the reduction of costs with industrialized fertilizers, which are generally imported

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