Abstract
Experiments were located at Lower Niger River Basin Development Authority, Ejiba and Horticultural Section College of Agriculture, Kabba in 2014 cropping season to investigate the effect of different spacing and urea application rates on fruit nutrient composition, growth and fruit yield of tomato in derived savanna vegetation of Nigeria. Field experiments were arranged in a randomized complete block design in factorial fashion with three replications. The row spacing were 75 × 40 cm (33,333 plant·ha-1, 75 × 50 cm (26,666 plant·ha-1) and 75 × 60 cm (22,222 plant·ha-1) while the urea rates comprised control (0 kg urea·ha-1), 54.3 and 108.6 kg urea·ha-1. Growth and yield parameters taken were as follows: average plant height, stem girth, leaf area (m2) and yield per land area. Data were collected from ten randomly selected plants in each plot. The data were statistically analyzed using GENSTAT. The analysis of variance (ANOVA) was performed to find out the significance of variation among the treatments while the significant difference between mean treatments was separated using least significance Difference at 5% level of probability. The result obtained from this study indicated that urea application and spacing affected significantly growth parameters of tomato and yield per land area. It could be concluded that there was a significant increase in plant height, number of leaves, number of fruits per plant and final fruit weight of tomato as a result of urea fertilizer application at the rate of 108.6 kg urea/ha. However, this was not significantly better than plots with urea application at 54.8 kg/ha in both Ejiba and Kabba. Row spacing of 75 × 50 cm showed better performance in number of fruit and fruit yield per plots. Farmers in Ejiba and Kabba should apply urea at the rate of 54.8 kg per hectare and plant the crop at a row spacing of 75 × 50 cm for optimum yield and for a more profitable production of tomato.
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Claim · model-written summary
Urea application and spacing significantly affected tomato growth parameters and yield per land area.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- urea application and spacinge0
- Outcome
- growth parameters of tomato and yield per land areae0
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Verbatim
e0“urea application and spacing affected significantly growth parameters of tomato and yield per land area”
Claim · model-written summary
Urea at 108.6 kg/ha significantly increased tomato plant height and leaf number.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- urea fertilizer application at the rate of 108.6 kg urea/hae0
- Outcome
- plant height, number of leavese0
- Direction
- increasee0
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Verbatim
e0“significant increase in plant height, number of leaves, number of fruits per plant and final fruit weight of tomato as a result of urea fertilizer application at the rate of 108.6 kg urea/ha”
Claim · model-written summary
Urea at 108.6 kg/ha significantly increased fruit number and final fruit weight.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- urea fertilizer application at the rate of 108.6 kg urea/hae0
- Outcome
- number of fruits per plant and final fruit weighte0
- Direction
- increasee0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“significant increase in plant height, number of leaves, number of fruits per plant and final fruit weight of tomato as a result of urea fertilizer application at the rate of 108.6 kg urea/ha”
Claim · model-written summary
The 108.6 kg/ha rate was not significantly better than the stated 54.8 kg/ha rate at either site.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- 108.6 kg urea/hae1
- Outcome
- not significantly bettere0
- Direction
- not significantly bettere0
- Comparator
- urea application at 54.8 kg/hae0
- Setting
- Ejiba and Kabbae0
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Verbatim
e0“this was not significantly better than plots with urea application at 54.8 kg/ha in both Ejiba and Kabba”
e1“108.6 kg urea/ha”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
The 75 × 50 cm spacing performed better for fruit number and fruit yield per plot.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- Row spacing of 75 × 50 cme0
- Outcome
- number of fruit and fruit yield per plotse0
- Direction
- bettere0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Row spacing of 75 × 50 cm showed better performance in number of fruit and fruit yield per plots.”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend 54.8 kg urea per hectare and 75 × 50 cm spacing for tomato production.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Outcome
- apply urea at the rate of 54.8 kg per hectare and plant the crop at a row spacing of 75 × 50 cme0
- Setting
- Ejiba and Kabbae0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Farmers in Ejiba and Kabba should apply urea at the rate of 54.8 kg per hectare and plant the crop at a row spacing of 75 × 50 cm for optimum yield and for a more profitable production of tomato.”
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