Yield Distribution in Irrigated tea (Camellia Sinensis) at Two Sites in Eastern Africa
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Experimental Agriculture
- Vol. 23 (1), 75-85
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0014479700001150
Abstract
SUMMARY: The results of two tea irrigation experiments conducted independently in southern Tanzania and Malawi, where severe annual droughts of similar duration occur, were compared. There were marked differences in the dry season yield distributions between the two sites. These could be attributed to the adverse effects of large saturation deficits on plant water status and rates of shoot extension in Malawi. The implications for tea irrigation in particular and for irrigation agronomy experiments in general are discussed. The need to include detailed descriptions of the environment in which experiments are conducted is stressed.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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