Crop Water Requirement of Tomato under Different Transplanting Dates in Poly-house Environments

Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill) belongs to the Solanaceae family. It is one of the most popular, cash earning and versatile vegetable crops for small farmers of India. A field experiment was conducted to investigate the Crop Water Requirement of Tomato Crop Transplanting under Different Dates under Poly-house Conditions at the Plasticulture Farm of CTAE, MPUAT Udaipur, Rajasthan, during the period of July, 2018 to May, 2019. There were total six treatments for different dates of transplanting of tomato i.e., 5th July (T1), 5th August (T2), 5th September (T3), 5th October (T4), 5th November (T5), 5th December (T6). The experiment was laid out in randomized block design with six treatments and four replications each to find out the optimum water requirement of Tomato crop where the ETc was calculated by Penman–Monteith (PM). The results reveal that for T3 (5th September) treatment the minimum water requirement (418.40 mm) and for T6 (5th December) it was maximum (486.64 mm). Therefore, considering the results finding, the 5th September date of transplanting is the best for tomato transplanting.