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Effect of Planting Time on Yield and Quality of Flue-Cured Tobacco in Iringa District, Tanzania

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

B. C. Akehurst
B. C. Akehurst
Affiliation:
Ministry of Agriculture, Forests and Wildlife, Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika)
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Summary

As part of a project to introduce Virginian-type flue-cured tobacco varieties into a new area, a number of experiments on the effect of time of planting showed that returns declined according to the delay in planting after the start of the rains. This decline was not arrested by differential fertilization, soil fumigation or the use of quicker maturing varieties. The early plantings appeared to have a greater growth potential, which could often be more fully realised under improved cultural techniques. Thus, early plantings gave substantial positive responses to applications of nitrogen which had little effect on, or were detrimental to, later plantings. It is suggested that the responses noted were linked with weather conditions during the first few weeks after planting. The drier and more sunny these were, the better, and the possibility therefore arises of using rainfall probability data, with a minimum of field experimentation, in future problems of this nature.

Type
Research Article
Information
Experimental Agriculture , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , October 1965 , pp. 305 - 313
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1965

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