Bulb vegetable production with reduction of water and nutrition supply.

Abstract

This result shows part of the joined work carried out in the last eight years with producers in fragile ecosystems, plain, premontane and mountain and different technological forms of production of garlic and onion bulb vegetables. The growth and yield of the onion and garlic crops were evaluated when the water and nutritional supply was reduced together with the use of biological alternatives. It was obtained as a result that the established humidity levels can be reduced to 50% of the indicated norm and to obtain 20% higher yields, as long as mycorrhizae and cattle manure are available as alternatives within the technology. It was also demonstrated that both crops can express the same performance with reductions of doses of mineral fertilizers up to 50%, if FitoMas-E is used within the technology and the fractionation of the fertilizers is fulfilled.