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Bombardier
French lettuce variety Trocadero
Granada, Spain
Trocadero lettuces treated with BOMBARDIER have increased their average weight (17% more than untreated), size (5% more in diameter and 15.5% more volume), density (1.9 % more than in CONTROL), increase the quantity of marketable lettuces (4% more) and therefore in productivity – over 6000 kg/ha or 22% more with BOMBARDIER.
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Increase productivity
+22% (6.016 kg/ha)
Higher precocity
-11,9% (5 days less)
Greater gross Benefit of the crop
+360€/ha
Data for the farmer
For an average producer with 50 hectares of french lettuce variety Trocadero, who decides to use Bombardier, during the next 5 years, the impact on its income statement is:
Result
Crop: French lettuce variety Trocadero
Planting density: 60,000 plants/ha
Location: Zafarraya, GRANADA, Spain
Surface: 2,800 m2
Transplant date: 21/08/2015
Harvest date: 02/02/2018
Trial Design:
- Control
- BOMBARDIER, 2 applications at a dose of 10 L/ha per application.
- Date of Application: September 3 and 12, 2015 (13 and 22 days after transplant).
- Surface of variants: 2 sectors of 1,400 ha each.
Analyzed Parameters:
- Yield, kg/ha
- Average lettuce weight, g
- Amount of defective lettuces, % (in five random measurements with 200 plants each)
- Amount of marketable lettuce, units/ha
- The dates in which the weight has reached 450 gr/piece are identified
- Head diameter (circumference), cm
- Head volume, cm3
- Head density, g/cm3 (weight divided by volume)
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