Economic Sustainability of Italian Greenhouse Cherry Tomato

Testa, Riccardo; Trapani, Anna Maria Di; Sgroi, Filippo; Tudisca, Salvatore

doi:10.3390/su6117967

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“…However, this variety could be compared with other cherry tomato varieties. Lattauschke [33] and Testa et al [34] reported average yields of 15.0 and 16.6 kg·m −2 , respectively. The exact durations of the seasons were not declared.…”

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Tomato Productivity and Quality in Aquaponics: Comparison of Three Hydroponic Methods

Schmautz

Loeu

Liebisch

et al. 2016

Water

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Aquaponics (AP) is a food production system that combines hydroponic (HP) crop production with recirculating aquaculture. Different types of hydroponic systems have been used for growing crops in aquaponics. However, very few studies have compared their suitability and efficiency in an aquaponic context. The study presented here compares tomato yield, morphological (external) and biochemical (internal) fruit quality, and overall tomato plant vitality from three different HP systems (nutrient film technique, drip irrigation system, and floating raft culture) and examines the distribution of nutrients in different parts of the tomato plant. Three replicate AP systems were set up, each incorporating the three different HP systems coupled with a separate recirculating aquaculture unit growing Nile tilapia. The results showed that the choice of the cultivation system had little influence on most of the above-mentioned properties. Tomato fruit mineral content was found to be in similar range for N, P, K, Ca, Mg, Fe, and Zn as reported in the literature. Yield and fruit quality were similar in all three systems. However, the drip irrigation system did perform slightly better. The slightly higher oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) of the fruits grown in AP in comparison to commercially produced and supermarket derived tomatoes might indicate a potential for producing fruits with higher health value for humans.

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Tomato Productivity and Quality in Aquaponics: Comparison of Three Hydroponic Methods

Schmautz

Loeu

Liebisch

et al. 2016

Water

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“…A "major" disease usually affects yield, as has been reported for RFSm in many literature (Nessa et al, 2015). Besides, a disease, when impacts yield, also reduces the economic sustainability of a crop by lowering farmers' income (Kuosmanen et al, 2013;Spiertz, 2013;Testa et al, 2014;Sgroi et al, 2015).…”

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Spatial Pattern of Natural Spread of Rice False Smut (<i>Ustilaginoidea virens</i>) Disease in Fields

Nessa¹,

Salam²,

Haque³

et al. 2015

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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Pattern of disease spread provides improved knowledge on how the pathogen introduces itself and interacts with environment in fields and expresses as a disease. It is especially significant when epidemiology of a disease, such as Rice False Smut (RFSm), is unclearly understood. Not reported before, this study attempted an analysis of spatial pattern of natural spread of RFSm in nine fields in an intensive rice ecosystem in Bangladesh. Both conventional and specialized statistical methods were applied in the analysis. Results show that the spread of the disease was not similar between and within the fields and even some fields were almost disease free. RFSm recorded aggregation in spaces in most of the fields, but the location of this aggregation differed between the fields. Symptom recorded on panicles in regenerated tillers from harvested main crop (otherwise known as ratoons). The disease tended to be prominent towards proximity of drainage channels. The probability of occurring one diseased tiller per hill was calculated as 73% and cumulative probability of four or less smut balls per diseased panicle as little over 60%. This study establishes soil as the absolute dominant source of initiation of the epidemic. The analysis did not find evidence of any long-or short-distance primary and/or secondary sources of infection. It is concluded that the disease management be directed specific to the fields at risk. It suggests development of a soil testing tool for quantifying inoculum potential in a field to ascertain the risk. With the discovery of symptom on ratoons, this study highlights the need for fresh thinking on identifying the pathway of entry of the pathogen into the plant.

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“…There are many weed management techniques that can be lead to reduced herbicide dependence, as direct-seeding, competitive varieties, increased seeding rates, strategic fertilizer placement, growing silage and cover crops, all these have excellent potential to suppress weed growth (Harker and Blackshaw, 2009). Crop residues hold a great prospect for meeting some of those demands and have more readily applicable in agro ecosystems (Alsaadawi et al, 2013;Testa et al, 2014;Sgroi et al, 2014). This approach (Crop residue) can be used in weeds management by two ways; it can be used by selecting an appropriate residue of crop variety then incorporating it in soil, Also it can used by applying residues or straw as mulches on soil surface in a rotational sequence that allows residues to remain in the field (Alsaadawi and Dayan, 2009).…”

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Weed Management in Sesame Field (<i>Sesamum indicum</i> L) Using Wheat Straw and Tillage or no Tillage Systems

Al-Eqaili¹,

Lahmod

Eshkandi

2017

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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A field trial was achieved to test the response of weed and sesame crop to use wheat straw and tillage or no tillage systems. The experiment treatments were include; no tillage without straw, tillage without straw, tillage with straw, incorporated with soil and straw as cover crop (no tillage). The result shown that weed density and biomass have high significantly suppression when wheat straw applied as cover crop and without tillage soil compared with soil tillage without straw treatments, while no significant different noticed between treatment that no tillage without straw and tillage with straw incorporated with soil treatments. Using wheat straw as cover crop significantly improved sesame yield and yield components about 50% more than using wheat straw as incorporated with soil treatment and no tillage without straw treatment. This increase in sesame yield can be attribute to amended of capsules number per plant (53.2 capsules) and number of seed per capsule (54.6 seed) compared with 18.1 capsules per plant and 53.6 seed per capsule in tillage without straw treatment . The results of this study have led to the conclusion of possibility using wheat straw hopeful approach to amended sesame planting when used as cover crop.

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Economic Sustainability of Italian Greenhouse Cherry Tomato

Cited by 43 publications

References 66 publications

Tomato Productivity and Quality in Aquaponics: Comparison of Three Hydroponic Methods

Tomato Productivity and Quality in Aquaponics: Comparison of Three Hydroponic Methods

Spatial Pattern of Natural Spread of Rice False Smut (<i>Ustilaginoidea virens</i>) Disease in Fields

Weed Management in Sesame Field (<i>Sesamum indicum</i> L) Using Wheat Straw and Tillage or no Tillage Systems

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