Improvement of Growth, Yield and Quality of Tomato Indeterminate Entries (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) All India Coordinated Vegetable Improvement Project (AICVIP) Varietal Trials (AVT-II)

Abstract

The field experiment was carried out to study the performance evaluation of All India Co-Ordinated Vegetable Improvement Project (AICVIP) varietal trial (AVT-II) on growth, yield and quality of Tomato Indeterminate entries from 2014 to 2015 at the Department of Vegetable Crops, Horticultural College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore. The seeds of the tomato Indeterminate (AVT-II) Six entries were chosen for this study. Tomato cultivation can be conducted in open field conditions or in the greenhouse under environmentally regulated conditions. Among the Six entries tested (AVT-II), the highest fruit yield (345.0 q/ha) was recorded in 2012/ TOINDVAR-4 followed by ARKA VIKAS (C) (335.0 q/ha), whereas, the lowest fruit yield (291.0 q/ha) was recorded in 2012/ TOINDVAR-1.