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Tomato Production Guide

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Planting dates
• All year round in frost free areas or greenhouse

Days to Harvest
• 80 to 120 days Depends on cultivar

Harvesting duration
• 60 Days

Yield
• 20 000 - 60 000 kgs

Soil requirements
• pH 5.0 to 5.5, • Sandy loam soils, • Soil testing is key

✍️SPACING
Inrow 30-35cm
Interrow 1.5m

✍️DETERMINATE VARIETIES
Ultra quick
Star 9008
Zandra
Jam type/ oval shape
Star 9062
Star 9063

✍Semi Determinate
Star 9009,9011(round)
Star 9064,9065(jam)

✍INDETERMINATE
Round
Star 9030
star9037
Trinity
Star 9081,9082

Fertilizer requirements
• Basal Dressing: Compound S, 100kg/ha
• Top Dressing: Ammonium Nitrate and Potassium Sulphate 100kg/ha split into 2 or 3 applications

•Apply calcium nitrate at fruiting stage as a foliar spray at 1% solution (10g per litre of water or 150g per standard 15 lt knapsack) after every 14 days.

•Spray calcium nitrate early in the morning or late afternoon to avoid fertiliser burn. Full cover spray is required.

Weed management
• Annual and perennial grasses- Fusilade super, Apply post emergence to young and actively growing
weeds
• Broad leaves and annual grasses- Sencor 480 SC, Apply as directed.

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Pests
• Cut worm- Carbaryl, Karate
• Aphids- Dimethoate, Malathion 50%
• African Bollworm- Thionex 35 EC, Carbaryl, Dipterex 95 SP
• Red spider mite- Malathion, Dimethoate 40 EC, Mitac, Armitraz 20 EC,
• Leaf miners- Tamaron, Trigard
• Whitefly-Confidor, Naturell, DDVP

Diseases
• Bacterial canker/ It is controlled by using healthy seeds, planting on ridges and the use of crop rotation.
• Bacterial wilt/ Use crop rotation and avoid use of areas prone to water logging.

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Cont...

Bacterial spot-Healthy seed crop rotation and Copper oxychloride, Mancozeb, Captan and Metiram
• Bacterial speck-Use certified disease free seed Copper oxychloride and Mancozeb
• Early blight- Copper oxychloride and Mancozeb, Ridomil, Maneb, Bravo

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Cont...

• Late blight-Copper oxychloride and Mancozeb, Ridomil, Maneb, Bravo, Captan
• Tomato mosaic virus/ spotted wilt virus/ yellow leaf curl virus-Use resistant cultivars, Control vectors, Practice good hygiene, Rogue out and destroy infected

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