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Effects of Different Amounts of Walit Bird Waste Charcoal and Sugarcane
Bagasse Charcoal on Pre- and Postharvest Quality of Lowland Cherry
Tomato (Solanum Lycopersicum var Cerasiform) Under Soilless Culture
System.
Nur Dini Syamimie Bt Azmi
Supervisor: Dr. Wan Zaliha Binti Wan Sembok
Bachelor of Science Agrotechnology (Postharvest Technology)
School of Food Science and Technology
A greenhouse experiment was conducted to evaluate the responses of different
amounts of biochar derived from bird and agricultural wastes on pre- and postharvest
prformances of lowland cherry tomato under soilless culture system. Two factors were
involved, types of biochar (bird and sugarcane baggasse) amounts of biochar (0%,
5%,10%,15% of normal practice media) with four replicates. Thirty-two of threeweek-old
cherry tomato seedlings were transferred into polybags filled with 3 kg
different soilless growing media and arranged in randomized complete block design.
Parameters being evaluated were stem diameter, yield, fruit colour, firmness, soluble
solids concentration and titratable acidity. Various substrates of biochar at varying
amounts had a comparable growth performance and postharvest quality without
causing adverse effect. In conclusion, all of the substrates can be developed into
commercial growing media specifically for cherry tomato. The best biochar substrate
could not be revealed as all the substrates had promising effect.
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