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Vol. 7 (2) : March-April 2016 issue
Green Farming Vol. 7 (2) : 438-441 ; March-April, 2016
Response of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) to varying levels of spacing and training under protected conditions
NISHTHA PATELa1*, SANJEEV KUMARa2, R.V. TANKb3, PRIYANKA PATELa4 and J.N. TIWARIa5
aDepartment of Vegetable Science, bDepartment of Fruit Science, ASPEE College of Horticulture and Forestry, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari - 396 450 (Gujarat)
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1,4,5P.G. Student *(nishthapatel25@yahoo.com), 2Asstt. Professor *(drsksony@nau.in), 3Assoc. Professor
Subject : Vegetable Sciences
Paper No. : P-3757
Total Pages : 4
Received : 05 June 2015
Revised accepted : 26 February 2016
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NISHTHA PATEL, SANJEEV KUMAR, R.V. TANK, PRIYANKA PATEL and J.N. TIWARI. 2016. Response of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) to varying levels of spacing and training under protected conditions. Green Farming Vol. 7 (2) : 438-441 ; March-April, 2016

ABSTRACT
The present experiment was undertaken to study the response of tomato to varying levels of spacing and training at Regional Horticultural Research Station, ASPEE College of Horticulture and Forestry, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari, Gujarat, India during rabi, 2013-14 in Saw-Tooth Multispan type NVPH. Among different levels of spacing, narrow one (60 x 30 cm) recorded significantly maximum plant height of 70.59, 125.99, 161.89 and 219.74 cm at 30, 60, 90 and 120 days respectively while, wider spacing gave highest leaf area (853.27 cm2). Wider spacing also produced better result for reproductive parameters like days to first flowering (28.11) and number of fruits per cluster (5.04) as well as for yield parameters namely average fruit weight (110.95 g) and fruit yield per plant (3.14 kg). Among various levels of training systems, single stem showed significant effect on plant height to the tune of 125.96, 163.11, and 216.69 cm at 60. 90 and 120 DAP, leaf area (857.09 cm2), days to first flowering (28.22), number of flowers per cluster (8.78), number of fruits per cluster (6.19), number of fruits per plant (31.83), average fruit weight (92.86 g), fruit yield per plant (2.71 kg) and fruit yield per m2 (6.76 kg). Tomato cv. Heemsohna planted at the spacing of 60 x 60 cm and trained to single stem system (S3P1) recorded maximum average fruit weight and fruit yield per plant whereas, plants subjected to 60 x 45 cm spacing and single stem training (S2P1) confirmed higher number of fruits per plant as well as yield per m2. The plants exposed to 60 x 45 cm spacing and single stem system showed net realization of ? 23719 with BCR of 0.17 , however more return upto the level of ? 59171 and 64625 can be obtained by availing 65 and 75% subsidy in the state of Gujarat.
Key words :
Growth & yield attributes, Economics, Protected cultivation, Spacing, Subsidy, Tomato, Training system.