Comparative study of tomato production strategies for long-cycle crop in enarenado and for inter-planting in different substrates systems in the Mediterranean area
2017
Gazquez, J. C. | Perez, C. | Meca, D. E. | Segura, M. D. | Domene, M. A. | Cruz, E De La | Lopez, J. C. | Buendia, D.
Increasing yields and quality of horticultural crops in greenhouses is one of the priorities of the productive sector in the Mediterranean area. Strategies like inter-planting, when several short-cycle crops are overlapped instead of growing a single long-cycle crop, allow constant production with a high yield all year round. The objective of this study was to determine and compare yields and production costs of the inter-planting system using two different substrates (coconut fiber and perlite) with the most common system in Almería, long-cycle crop in enarenado. Inter-planting was the most productive system, with increases of 20% in commercial production compared with the soil (enarenado). The economic study, the long-cycle, in enarenado was the most profitable option (28% net profit) of the production practices that were studied.
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