Evaluating Vertical and Horizontal Distance for Vertically Farming Tomatoes (<i>Solanumlycop ersicum </i>L.) in Urban Agriculture, Daye Town, Sidama Region, Ethiopia

Hailu Hameso; Tariku Tefera

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Evaluating Vertical and Horizontal Distance for Vertically Farming Tomatoes (Solanumlycop ersicum L.) in Urban Agriculture, Daye Town, Sidama Region, Ethiopia

Hailu Hameso, Tariku Tefera

Published in Research & Development (Volume 3, Issue 3)

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One of the most important realities of today and the future is that the number of people living in urban areas across the world is greater than that of rural areas. Implementing measures at the city level that challenge current food systems and improve urban sustainability are time sensitive and necessary, and has led to a search for sustainable and alternative methods of urban food production. Urban agriculture can be done in open and closed areas including vertical garden. The field experiment was conducted under vertical garden at Daye town, in sidama region, Ethiopia in 2022 cropping season to determine the optimum vertical and horizontal distances for tomato production under vertical garden. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Complete Block Design with factorial arrangement with three replications and consisted two vertical distances (40 cm and 50 cm) to ward vertical and two horizontal distances (50cm, and 60cm) with Total of 4 treatments combination. Interaction effects influenced days for all phonological parameters, growth, yield and yield components. 40 cm toward vertical with 60 cm toward horizontal spacing exhibited the highest tomato fruit yield (68.73 kg per structure). The highest marginal rate of return (MRR%), 5592.9 was recorded from 40 cm toward vertical with 60 cm toward horizontal spacing under this vertical garden on tomato production. Given the fact that fruit yield performance between the two vertical spacing in combinations two horizontal spacing, 40 cm toward vertical with 60 cm toward horizontal spacing is recommended for tomato production under vertical garden of Daye town and similar agro-ecologies in the midlands towns of Ethiopia.

Published in	Research & Development (Volume 3, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.rd.20220303.16
Page(s)	178-184
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Interaction Effect, Tomato, Urban Agriculture, Vertical Garden, Vertical Spacing

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Hailu Hameso

Department of Plant Science, Hawassa University, Bensa Daye Campus, Daye, Ethiopia
Tariku Tefera

Department of Plant Science, Hawassa University, Bensa Daye Campus, Daye, Ethiopia

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