The Effects of Mulches on Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L.) in Respect of Yield Attribute in Ecosystem of Coastal Bengal

Abstract

Mulching has become an important practice in modern field production. The use of mulches in vegetable production is undergoing a radical change away from high input, nonrenewable resources, such as plastic, to the use of high-residue organic mulches from cover crop. The purpose of this present study was to compare the growth and yield of tomato when grown under different organic and inorganic mulches. The experiment was conducted with four treatments in two consecutive years (2016-2017 and 2017-2018) at instructional farm of Sasya Shyamala Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Arapanch and different blocks of South 24 Parganas district. Among the treatments, maximum yield 60.3 t/ha and 58.7 t/ha were recorded under poly mulches in the consecutive years.

Effect of Different Mulching Materials on Yield and Growth Parameters of Tomato Crop

“…Another reason to get low yield by conventional practice of irrigation might be due to less availability of nutrients for crop growth due to leaching and high weed infestation between the crops. These results showed the same trend as the results obtained in references [7,8,11] who showed that drip with the combination of plastic mulch is yielding higher.…”

“…The results are shown in ). This is due to the mulch that helps in conserving moisture and there is less need for irrigation [7,11].…”

“…The effect of different mulches on growth, flowering and yield of tomato was studied at Abohar and it was observed that there is significantly higher plant height (79.4 cm), branches per plant (7.1), dry weight of plant (287 g), fruit per plant (37.2), fruit weight (85.2 g) and yield per hectare (54t/ha) in black polythene mulching, whereas days to flowering (45) and days taken for ripening were minimum in clear polythene mulching [6]. The increase in yield of black mulched was probably associated with the conservation of moisture, improved micro-climate both beneath and above the soil surface, light reflection and great weed control which reflected also in terms of higher return [7]. Mulching caused marked variations in number of leaves per plant, plant height, no.…”

↵​Effect of Drip Irrigation Combined Organic Mulching on Water Productivity and Yield of Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L.)

“…The increased fruit yield with groundnut shells mulch was attributed to registering significantly higher number of fruits per plant. This increased × 100 Weed index = X-Y X WCE = ×100 DMC -DMT DMC tomato yield may be due to better development of roots and vegetative growth, better nutrients uptake in mulched plots; improved soil microbial activity (Bhagat et al, 2016) and less normal leaching of nitrogen (Kundu et al, 2019) and improved soil physical properties (Orji and Eke, 2018). The next higher fruit yield was noticed in saw dust mulch and the lowest fruit yield was recorded in no mulch treatment.…”

Response of irrigated tomato (Solanum lycopersicum Mill) to mulch application rates

“…In Nigeria, tomato is largely cultivated in the North under irrigated farming systems. While it can be grown almost throughout the year ( Kundu et al., 2019 ), its yield is directly affected by water deficit resulting from scarce rainfall and high soil evapotranspiration rates ( Byari and Al-Sayed, 1999 ) which affect superficial and underground sources of water supply. This scenario is further worsened by the inability of resource poor farmers to afford irrigation during periods of rainfall scarcity due to unavailability and/or high cost of irrigation facilities in many areas.…”