OPTIMUM PLANT POPULATION IN PEAS AND FACTORS INFLUENCING ITS ACHIEVEMENT IN THE FIELD

An exhaustive series of field experiments conducted by the Pea Growing Research Organisation Limited (PGRO), served to illustrate the considerable influence exerted by plant population on the yield and profitability of vining peas, and established the optimum population for highest returns.

The effects of population levels were so marked that, whatever the precise optimum in conditions elsewhere, the ability to achieve those optima, or population reasonably close to them, is a factor of economic importance worthy of careful consideration.

Studies were concurrently, and have been subsequently, carried out to determine the effects of a number of factors influencing the achievement of target populations in the field, in order to enable growers to increase efficiency in this regard.

II Symposium on Timing of the Fieldproduction of Vegetable Crops

A.J. Gane

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1975.52.29