Experimental Agriculture
- Experimental Agriculture / Volume 25 / Issue 03 / July 1989, pp 409-415
- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0014479700014927 (About DOI), Published online: 03 October 2008
Research Article
Effects of Planting on Different Sides of the Ridge on Emergence, Plant Growth, Yield and Quality of Potato (Solanum tuberosum) in the Sudan
A. M. Alia1
a1 Faculty of Agriculture, University of Khartoum, Shambat, Sudan
SUMMARY
The effects of planting potato tubers on four different sides of two ridge orientations was investigated. Soil temperature was coolest on the northern side, followed by the western, eastern and southern sides. Fifty percent emergence took place in 24, 42 and 49 days for tubers planted on the northern, western and eastern sides, respectively. Only 22% of tubers planted on the southern side emerged. The best yield and quality was obtained by planting on the northern side, followed successively by the eastern, western and southern sides of the ridge.
(Accepted October 22 1988)
