Diseases and Management of Crops under Protected Cultivation

(Diseases and Management of Crops under Protected Cultivation)
Table8 Effect of greenhouse in achieving earliness in some crops
Crop Days of first picking Harvesting period (days)
FRP Open Polycarbonate Open
Tomato 70 105 100 50
Capsicum 90 127 90 45
Brinjal 92 128 - -
Table9. Performance of capsicum in various protected structures
Treatments Days to50% No. of fruits/plant Ave. fruit Fruit
flowering
wt (g) yield/plant (g)
Greenhouse 63.00 10.4 100.05 937.33
Double Wall
Polyench
82.33 7.30 73.33 604.53
L Polycarbonate 71.33 8.50 83.50 719.27
Polyench 74.33 10.4 67.69 642.13
Open 79.00 8.91 42.19 471.93
Table 10 Effect of various structures on capsicum seed production
Treatment Fruits/
plant
Ave.
Fruit
wt(g)
Fruit
yield/
plant (g)
Seed:
Flesh
ration
Seeds/
fruits
1000
seed
wt(g)
Seed
yield
plant
(g)
Trench 7.27 80.0 550.33 0.27 87.33 5.44 3.56
Polycarbonate 7.93 90.4 634.00 0.22 99.67 5.76 4.39
Polyench 4.50 90.2 384.67 0.19 84.67 5.58 2.12
Open 4.50 63.2 294.00 0.21 52.67 5.42 1.40
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