ISHS Acta Horticulturae 190: Symposium on Tomato Production on Arid Land
TOMATO PRODUCTION UNDER SIMPLE PROTECTIVE TUNNELS IN EGYPT |
| Author: | F. El-Aidy |
| Abstract:
Tomato planting during late winter in northern Egypt is subject to frost injury, while tomato planted during late summer suffer from high temperature injury. Also productivity is rather low during these periods and the price is fairly high. The possibility of commercial tomato production under different sizes of simple plastic tunnels in winter and under different shade level nets in summer were evaluated in the Experimental Farm of Faculty of Agriculture, Kafr El-Sheikh, Tanta University during the period 1975–1984. Plastic walk-in-tunnels proved to be technically and statistically satisfactory. Among twenty-eight tomato varieties, Bonset Fl proved to be the best. Plants grown under shade tended to produce higher fruit yields than those in open field, but such tendency was reduced with the increase in the amount of shade, 40 per cent shade being the best in this respect. | |
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