Tomato is a dicotyledonous, herbal plant and belongs to a nightshade family(solanum). It is originated from Continent of America and became widely known in 18th century. In Georgia it is grown in lowlands and highlands. Tomato is used in many ways as in raw or in processed form. Tomato is rich with vitamins, micro elements and it is worth to say that it contains lycopene , that reduces risks of cancer diseases.
Tomato is as early ripening ,also late ripening plant and its vegetative period is about 100-120 days.
It is grown in open and closed soils. Seedlings are grown in greenhouses and special substrates are used , made with forest soil,dried manure,peat and mineral fertilizers. From mineral fertilizers, ammonium nitrate and ammonium sulfate are better for tomato as the plant requires nitrogen fertilizers. In vegetative period it is required to fertilize tomato plants 2 or 3 times.
According to physical weight ,250kg ammonium nitrate and 405kg ammonium sulfate application is required. Also for the second fertilization 0,5 kg ammonium nitrate or 1,0 kg ammonium sulfate should be dissolved in 100 liter water. The solution should be poured at the bottom of tomato plants. For 1 hectare of area 500 liter of the solution application is required.
According to Department of Statistics of Georgia,in 2016 tomato (with other vegetables) was grown on 36,2 thousand hectare.
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