Basic Knowledge in Agriculture #13

Hello lovers of Agriculture, am here to present my entry on basic knowledge in agriculture #13 and my choice vegetable is Tomatoes

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Tomatoes are the most global edible cultivated and consumed vegetables, in which china is marked as the world largest producer. They are originated in the Andes Mountains in South America. Tomatoes are easy growing versatility crop, making the farmers, gardeners to love growing it.

Tomatoes come with different color varieties such as the orange, green, purple, red and yellow. Many people are familiar with the red color and the red color varieties is mostly what people used.

Consumption

Tomatoes vegetables are consume in different ways such as;

• Making sauce for rice, yam, Potatoe, plantain

• It can be eaten raw

• Tomatoes is used to prepare soup

• Is best for smoothie

• The vegetables can be consume as salad

• It can also used to make fresh snacks.

With the difference purposes tomatoes serves, the vegetable become favorite to many people.

Tomatoes Characteristics

1. Plant Type: The vegetables is grown annually because it is a warm-season crops.

2. Growth Habit: Tomatoes has two varieties of growth habit, the determinate varieties and indeterminate varieties.

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🍅The determinate varieties produces fruit at all time and they are in bushy form.

🍅The indeterminate varieties produces fruit throughout the cultivation season and they are vine that continue to grow

1. Leaves: The leaves are light bright green in color with 5-7 leaflets

2. Fruit: Specifically, the vegetable are fruit berries with edible skin, smooth and juicy pulp.

3. Flowers: Their flowers are small, yellow, and star-shaped, arranged in clusters.

Challenges and Pests

Farmers, gardeners face a lot of of challenges in their farm as a result of certain disease, the

1. Pests: Pest such as whiteflies, hornworms, aphids, and nematodes are the common tomatoes pest that famers faced

2. Diseases: Tomatoes plants are likely harms by fusarium wilt, tomato blight, bacterial spot.

3. Environmental Stress: Temperature, flood and drought are the environmental stress that affect tomatoes.

Health benefits of tomatoes

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Tomatoe are excellent source of fiber, water which make it a nutritious healthy diet, offering a great benefits to the body to maintain good well-being.

🍅. Support healthy digestion

🍅. They contain antioxidant properties

🍅. Rich in vitamins, A, C and K

🍅. Reduce risk of heart disease and cancer

🍅. It boost immunity

🍅. Support healthy skin, hair.

🍅. Fight inflammation.

🍅. Improve premature ageing

🍅. Prevent blood from clotting

🍅. Lower cholesterol.

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