Two years results for water deficit irrigation in processing tomato on sandy soil

Abstract

Both the production and consumption of tomato, show a constantly increasing trend worldwide. The greatest growing areas in the World to raise Brix applied the water „cut off” method 3-4 weeks before harvest. In Hungary, we cannot successfully use this method. The target of our examination is to find out if the “deficit irrigation” method can be successfully applied on the sandy soil of Kecskemét. We have found differences in the measured parameters between non-irrigated and highly irrigated plots. The year effect on the open field is very high, which influenced our results.