Effect of planting time and variety on growth and yield attributes of tomato in semi-arid conditions of Rajasthan

Abstract

During the experimentation studied the effect of five planting time and three varieties of tomato during winter season of 2019-2020, 2020-21 and 2021-22. During the experiment three tomato variety viz. WS-1299 (V₁ ), Krishna (V₂ ) and Bavandar (V₃ ) were studied with five different dates of planting viz. 30 December (D₁ ), 15 December (D₂ ), 15 January (D₃ ), 30 January (D₄ ) and 15 February (D5 ). In which the yield of tomato was significantly affected by different sowing dates and verities. Among varieties and planting dates the variety Bavander (V₃ ) planted on 15 January (D₃ ) produced significantly higher number of fruits/ plant (39.70), fruit weight (83.25 g) and fruit yield (727.20 q/ ha) with the maximum B:C ratio (4.05).