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dc.contributor.authorKizza, Ronitah Milly
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-24T08:27:43Z
dc.date.available2019-07-24T08:27:43Z
dc.date.issued2018-11
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12281/6186
dc.description21500053a special project report submitted to the School of Agricultural Sciences in partial fulfillment for the award of a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Land use and Management of Makerere Universityen_US
dc.description.abstractABSTRACT Tomato (Lycoperscon esculentum M) is an important vegetable crop to rural farmers in Uganda. Its productivity is highly limited by poor soil fertility. A field experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of foliar fertilizers on yield of tomato and to obtain a candidate foliar fertilizer to be released to farmers. 7 foliar fertilizers (Plantone, Oshozyme, Venishire, Sunguard, Moreking, Fruit king and Root king) were evaluated on an experiment established using a randomized complete block design. (RCBD). The control experiment involved use of no foliar fertilizer. Data was collected on fruit number and fruit weight for three weeks after three months. Data was then analyzed using R software. The results showed that there was a significant interaction (p>0.001) between yield of tomato and use of foliar fertilizers. Sunguard, Venishire HC and fruit king foliar fertilizers produced the highest number and weight of tomatoes and so, they should be made available to local tomato growers since they were confirmed experimentally to have a significant increase on yield of tomato unlike plantone, oshozyme, moreking and root king which produced less number and weight of tomatoes as compared to the control.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMakerere Universityen_US
dc.subjectTomatoen_US
dc.subjectVegetable cropen_US
dc.subjectFoliar fertilizersen_US
dc.subjectPoor soil fertilityen_US
dc.titleEffect of foliar fertilizers on tomato (Lycospersicon esculentum Mill) yield on a Kamuli Ferrallisolen_US
dc.typeBooken_US


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