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UTILIZATION OF MICROBIAL INOCULANTS FOR THE ENHANCEMENT OF SOME VEGETABLES YIELD UNDER PROTECTED AGRICULTURE SYSTEM
Production of food and fiber is limited by low soil fertility.
Three years plastic house experiment started 1998 till 2001 at El-Bosiely site, El-Behera governorate, were conducted to evaluate the effect of biofertilization on the yield of some vegetables i.e. cucumber and sweet pepper.
In addition, a preliminary experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of transplanting some plants from Cruciferae family before mulching with polyethylene sheets for six weeks in the summer of 2002 in elimination of the soil-borne pathogens and plant parasitic nematodes.
Biofertilization of vegetables gave positive effect on yield of both sweet pepper and cucumber yield.
Biofertilization resulted in yield increase over control of 16 % and 15 % for sweet pepper and cucumber, respectively.
Transplanting with the Cruciferous plants caused an increase in cucumber yield reached in average of 45 % over the control treatment.
Moreover, a reduction in the nematodes population was recorded.
It could be concluded that increase of vegetables yield in protected cultivation could be reached with Biofertilization accompanied with soil disinfestations using a combination of solar heating and transplanting of Cruciferous plants.