Growth and yield attributes of tomato during off-season

Tomato is one the world's most used and popular vegetable crops. It is one of the vegetables with its highest production in Mizoram and growers used as a source of income due to its cash value nature. Tomato variety Arka abhed is a high yielding F hybrid with multiple disease resistance to tomato leaf curl disease, bacterial wilt, early blight and late blight. It is suitable for summer, kharif and rabi cultivation. Unlike other part of the country, Mizoram receives a high rainfall during monsoon which leads to higher incidence of foliar and fruit rot diseases in tomato. As such, these diseases incidence resulted in low crop productivity and affects the farmers income during off-season. Therefore, KVK Lawngtlai District is taking up cultivation of multiple disease resistant tomato variety Arka abhed during off-season (May - September) to help the farmers increase tomato production with higher rates. A field experiment was conducted at different locations during 2020-23 as off season crops with an objective to determine the growth and yield attributes of tomato during off season. The present result indicates that indeterminate tomato type can produce high fruit yield during off season.