EFFECT OF SOME ORGANIC FERTILIZERS FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES ON YIELD AND QUALITY OF THOMPSON SEEDLESS GRAPEVINES (Vitis vinifera, L.)

Abstract

The present study was carried out during 2003, 2004 and 2005 seasons on 15 years old Thompson seedless grapevines grown on a clay soil in a private vineyard at EL-Tawela village near Mansoura city, Dakahlia governorate. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of addition different sources of organic fertilizers as a partial substitute for nitrogen mineral fertilizers and their effect on bud behaviour, growth, mineral content of the leaves, yield and quality of Thompson Seedless grapevines. Farmyard manure (FYM), rice straw compost (RSC), Damitta town refuses (DTR) and Mansoura town refuses (MTR) were used with mineral nitrogen source (Ammonium sulphate) during this investigation. All vines were received the same nitrogen requirements (80 units of nitrogen per fed), but with replacement of 25, 50 and 75 % of the nitrogen requirements by organic manures (FYM, RSC, DTR and MTR) according to their nitrogen content. The control vines received the nitrogen requirements as mineral alone.The results showed that all combinations from organic nitrogen (sources + doses) with mineral nitrogen doses increased bud burst %, bud fertility %, fruiting coefficient, number of clusters per vine, cluster weight and yield/vine. In addition, SSC % was increased and total acidity was reduced in the berries juice. The data also indicated an improvement of rate of wood maturity, weight of pruning wood per vine and total carbohydrates in the canes as compared with using mineral nitrogen alone. The superiority of this investigation was for DTR at 40 and 60 units + 40 and 20 units of mineral nitrogen per fed which gave the best results.

Food losses, food waste, and beyond in food supply chains: Retaining optimum nutrient density

“…Research and the management of factors affecting nutrition, or indeed recognition of the need to improve NV, are taking place within agriculture, logistics, food processing, and delivery. Beyond climatic conditions such as exposure of products to light, temperature, rainfall, season, and location, human interventions in primary production, as in the use of fertilizers, can also generate nutritional loss (Mostafa et al., 2008). Even in the harvesting process, there can be a risk to nutrient content through vitamin loss as a consequence of cutting, chopping, shredding, and indeed bruising, all of which will result in exposure to enzymatic activity that catalyzes the degradation of vitamins.…”

“…Precision agriculture emerged as a consequence of the search for digital solutions in a digital age, stimulated by engineering research into robotics and artificial intelligence technology. This opened up research avenues that have examined the value of the capture of field data in order to target treatments to reduce the use of water, fertilizer, seeds, herbicides, and insecticides based on data obtained with global positioning systems (GPS) and geographic information systems (GIS) technologies (Gupta, 2020; Lal, 2020; Linaza et al., 2021; Mostafa et al., 2008; Saiz‐Rubio & Rovira‐Más, 2020; Walter et al., 2017; Weiss et al., 2020).…”