SOLAR ENERGY USES TO INCREASE POTATO TUBERS SEEDS SPROUTING FOR PRODUCTION IMPROVEMENT. | ||||
Menoufia Journal of Agricultural Engineering | ||||
Article 1, Volume 1, Issue 1, November and December 2017, Page 1-2 PDF (364.5 K) | ||||
Document Type: original papers | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/maje.2017.156023 | ||||
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Authors | ||||
M.A.H. Aboamera1; G. R. Gamea1; A. T. H. Taha2 | ||||
1Prof. of Agriculture Engineering, Fac. of Agric., Menoufia Univ. | ||||
2Associate Prof. of Agriculture Engineering, Fac. of Agric., Menoufia Univ. | ||||
Abstract | ||||
Recently serious attention has been given to the possibility of increasing agriculture production of potato seed with good quality. The importance of knowing the suitable weather condition from temperature ranged between 18-25 °C and its effect on breaking dormancy period of potato seed to get on more sprouts per tuber seed. In Egypt during January potato seeds are imported and during this month the temperature is lower and ranged between (10-13 °C). The main objectives of this work was to study the feasibility of adapting the weather condition around potato seed before planting by solar energy. The obtained results supported using greenhouse due to increasing the ratio of sprouting, earlier emergence, more stems and numbers of new tubers per square meter and more yield in case of storage the seed potato tubers inside the greenhouse for 8 days compared with seed potato tubers that stored in open air outside greenhouse by more than 12% | ||||
Keywords | ||||
Using of solar Energy; sprouting of potato seeds; Temperature on potato seeds; Relative humidity on potato seeds; green house | ||||
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