TOWARDS 10 T/HA BRIX

Current brix yields tend to be about 5 t/ha in processing tomato crops.
It is postulated that using existing knowledge, brix yields as high as 10 t/ha could be achieved.
This will involve the integration and fine tuning of a diverse range of scientific and agronomic skills including:

1) Modifying plant spacing and increasing bed width;
2) Improved crop nutrition;
3) Breeding cultivars with a high harvest index;
4) Harvesting the fruit at the optimum date;
5) Improvements in irrigation scheduling, particularly close to harvest.

These factors are considered independently and then in an integrative manner.

IX International Symposium on the Processing Tomato

M.A. Nichols

Lycopersicon esculentum, brix yield, quality, agronomy

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2006.724.27