Yield Response, Nutritional Quality and Water Productivity of Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) are Influenced by Drip Irrigation and Straw Mulch in the Coastal Saline Ecosystem of Ganges Delta, India

• Published in: Sustainability Vol. 12; no. 17; p. 6779
• Main Authors: Samui, Indranil, Skalicky, Milan, Sarkar, Sukamal, Brahmachari, Koushik, Sau, Sayan, Ray, Krishnendu, Hossain, Akbar, Ghosh, Argha, Nanda, Manoj Kumar, Bell, Richard W., Mainuddin, Mohammed, Brestic, Marian, Liu, Liyun, Saneoka, Hirofumi, Raza, Muhammad Ali, Erman, Murat, EL Sabagh, Ayman
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 21.08.2020
• Subjects: Agricultural production; Cost control; Crop diseases; Crops; Cultivars; drip irrigation; Efficiency; Experiments; Irrigation; mulching; Productivity; Quality; Rain; Rice; saline soil; Salinity; Salt; Seasons; Sustainability; tomato; Tomatoes; Water shortages; yield; Ganges Delta; West Bengal India; India

In the coastal zone of the Ganges Delta, water shortages due to soil salinity limit the yield of dry season crops. To alleviate water shortage as a consequence of salinity stress in the coastal saline ecosystem, the effect of different water-saving (WS) and water-conserving options was assessed on g...