Performance Analysis of Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) Cultivars under the Agro-climatic Conditions of Balaghat Region

Abstract

The present investigation was carried out with objectives to evaluate different varieties of tomato for growth, yield and quality and to work out economics of the treatments. The experimental material consisted of eight different tomato varieties viz. Shree, VNR-3357, VNR -3348, VNR-3171, Vani, Aruna, Devi and Uma. The experiment was conducted at Research farm of School of Agriculture Science, Technology & Research, Sardar Patel University, Balaghat (M. P.). The transplanting of experimental material was done on 1st week of July 2023 with Randomized Block Design (RBD) and replicated three times. The data were recorded on five randomly selected plants from each Variety for 12 characters. The data on all the characters were subjected to statistical analysis using statistical software. The overall results obtained from this present investigation clearly revealed that the variety T3- (VNR-3171) showed the better performance for growth parameters, plant height (cm) at 30, 60 and 90 Days after transplanting, number of branches per plant. Earliness parameters such as days to first flowering, days to 50% flowering, number of flowers per plant and yield attributes (number of fruits per plant, average fruit weight (g), fruit yield per plant (kg/plant), fruit  yield per plant (kg/plant), fruit yield per plot (kg/plot), fruit yield per ha. (t /ha.) and quality attributes such as TSS (0Brix). The treatment with T3 i.e. Tomato var. VNR-3171 recorded the maximum monetary advantage with the benefit cost ratio of 4.2.