Beta
36541

Agro-Economic Assessment of Added Fertilizers to Tomato Yield Grown at Fayoum Governorate, Egypt

Article

Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

In the recent years the cultivated land of tomatoes and their production in Egypt have been diminished for some reasons; among them fertilization. The current study was performed to assess the effects of applied fertilizers to tomato grown at Fayoum Governorate Egypt (29° 18' 30"N; 30° 50' 39"E) on yield, nutrients uptake, nitrate accumulation, soil fertility, and the relationships among them. Eighteen tomato fields were chosen at four villages in two districts at autumn season of 2016-2017. Representative samples of soil, plant and irrigation water were taken from every site to be analyzed. Furthermore, 120 questionnaires forms were collected from tomato farmers in the studied districts. Results indicated that soils under study were high in nitrogen and most of micronutrients, low in phosphorus and moderately to low in potassium. Irrigation water quality ranged from low to moderately. The total productivity of tomato ranged from 19.350 to 46.548 t. fed-1 with an average of 31.096t., where the added fertilizers ranged from 147-259 kg N fed-1, 22.5-75 kg P2O5 and 0-96 kg K2O. Tomato yield significantly correlated with applied fertilizers of N, P and K, but insignificantly correlated with organic manure. The accumulation of nitrate in fruits significantly correlated with uptake of nitrogen, nevertheless the correlation between the applied of nitrogen and the uptake was insignificant. The obtained data of questionnaires forms cleared up that correlation between tomato productivity and the added nitrogen and organic manure was insignificant. Therefore, great attention should be paid to phosphorus and potassium fertilization without excessive addition of nitrogen.

DOI

10.21608/jssae.2018.36541

Keywords

fertilizers, tomato yield, Soil fertility, water quality and correlations among them

Authors

First Name

R.

Last Name

El-Dissoky

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Soils Fertility and Plant Nutrition Res. Dep.; Soils, Water and Environment Res. Inst., Agric. Res. Center. Giza, Egypt

Email

r.eldissoky@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

A.

Last Name

Sherif

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Environment Res. Dep.; Soils, Water and Environment Res. Inst., Agric. Res. Center. Giza, Egypt

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Eitemad

Last Name

Mohamd

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Agricultural Economy Res. Inst., Agric. Res. Center. Giza, Egypt

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

9

Article Issue

12

Related Issue

5947

Issue Date

2018-12-01

Receive Date

2018-12-01

Publish Date

2018-12-01

Page Start

771

Page End

780

Print ISSN

2090-3685

Online ISSN

2090-3766

Link

https://jssae.journals.ekb.eg/article_36541.html

Detail API

https://jssae.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=36541

Order

11

Type

Original Article

Type Code

889

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Journal of Soil Sciences and Agricultural Engineering

Publication Link

https://jssae.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Agro-Economic Assessment of Added Fertilizers to Tomato Yield Grown at Fayoum Governorate, Egypt

Details

Type

Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023