Quality of Pumpkin Fruits in Different Soil Managements

Abstract

To mitigate the effects of conventional agriculture, aiming at the sustainability of the ecosystem, it is necessary to use techniques that preserve the environment, reconciling food production with the reduction of environmental impacts in a sustainable way. In this sense, carrying out the cultivation keeping the native forest can be an alternative for maintaining sustainability in agricultural systems. Therefore, the objective of this work was to evaluate the postharvest quality of three pumpkin varieties (Cucurbita moschata) submitted to different soil management, aiming to obtain subsidies for the establishment of a promising management of this vegetable under field conditions. The study was carried out in an area located in the municipality of Acarape, Ceará, where two cultivation systems and three pumpkin cultivars were used, distributed in a Amorim et al.