Effect of hail protecting nets on the quality of apples
Today, successful fruit growing depends largely on the security of production. Among the technological elements of a secure growing system, the use of hail protection nets serves special attention. Components of security are the regularity, conspicuous large yields with excellent quality, which dete...
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| author | I. Gonda B. Vaszily A. Bartha M. Soltész Z. Szabó J. Nyéki |
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| description | Today, successful fruit growing depends largely on the security of production. Among the technological elements of a secure growing system, the use of hail protection nets serves special attention. Components of security are the regularity, conspicuous large yields with excellent quality, which determine the prices and profitability as well (Szabó et al., 2010). In the European Union, most of the apple growing countries produce higher yields by 10-20% than Hungary. The conditions of better yields are partly due to a more favourable ecological milieu, partly to more developed technologies and serious discipline of the operations. Our own competitiveness could be developed first of all in those moments. As a consequence of global climatic changes, excesses of weather, i.e. hail-storms became more frequent. Different methods of protection against hail are developed abroad but also in Hungary. The examination of effects of the hail protection nets compared with the check without nets has been the purpose of our experiments. The growing system was the intensive one with high planting densities. Fruits of the two subsequent years have been compared as grown with and without hail protective nets. It turned out that in one season when shoot growth was stimulated, the shadowing effect of the net increased in addition the growth and at the same time braked the differentiation of flower buds, which exerted negative effects on yield of the next year. Let alone this phenomenon, the quality of fruits was not influenced by the hail protection net. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c51e55fc73e94aa7b34ea1e6193831272022-12-21T21:17:36ZengUniversity of DebrecenInternational Journal of Horticultural Science1585-04042676-931X2011-12-01174-510.31421/IJHS/17/4-5/974Effect of hail protecting nets on the quality of applesI. Gonda0B. Vaszily1A. Bartha2M. Soltész3Z. Szabó4J. Nyéki5University of Debrecen Centre for Agricultural and Applied Economic Sciences H-4032 Debrecen, 138 Böszörményi Street, HungaryUniversity of Debrecen Centre for Agricultural and Applied Economic Sciences H-4032 Debrecen, 138 Böszörményi Street, HungaryUniversity of Debrecen Centre for Agricultural and Applied Economic Sciences H-4032 Debrecen, 138 Böszörményi Street, HungaryCollege of Kecskemét, Faculty of Horticulture H-6000 Kecskemét, 1–3. Erdei Ferenc SquareUniversity of Debrecen Centre for Agricultural and Applied Economic Sciences H-4032 Debrecen, 138 Böszörményi Street, HungaryUniversity of Debrecen Centre for Agricultural and Applied Economic Sciences H-4032 Debrecen, 138 Böszörményi Street, HungaryToday, successful fruit growing depends largely on the security of production. Among the technological elements of a secure growing system, the use of hail protection nets serves special attention. Components of security are the regularity, conspicuous large yields with excellent quality, which determine the prices and profitability as well (Szabó et al., 2010). In the European Union, most of the apple growing countries produce higher yields by 10-20% than Hungary. The conditions of better yields are partly due to a more favourable ecological milieu, partly to more developed technologies and serious discipline of the operations. Our own competitiveness could be developed first of all in those moments. As a consequence of global climatic changes, excesses of weather, i.e. hail-storms became more frequent. Different methods of protection against hail are developed abroad but also in Hungary. The examination of effects of the hail protection nets compared with the check without nets has been the purpose of our experiments. The growing system was the intensive one with high planting densities. Fruits of the two subsequent years have been compared as grown with and without hail protective nets. It turned out that in one season when shoot growth was stimulated, the shadowing effect of the net increased in addition the growth and at the same time braked the differentiation of flower buds, which exerted negative effects on yield of the next year. Let alone this phenomenon, the quality of fruits was not influenced by the hail protection net.https://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/IJHS/article/view/974hail protection netfruit qualityapple varieties |
| spellingShingle | I. Gonda B. Vaszily A. Bartha M. Soltész Z. Szabó J. Nyéki Effect of hail protecting nets on the quality of apples International Journal of Horticultural Science hail protection net fruit quality apple varieties |
| title | Effect of hail protecting nets on the quality of apples |
| title_full | Effect of hail protecting nets on the quality of apples |
| title_fullStr | Effect of hail protecting nets on the quality of apples |
| title_full_unstemmed | Effect of hail protecting nets on the quality of apples |
| title_short | Effect of hail protecting nets on the quality of apples |
| title_sort | effect of hail protecting nets on the quality of apples |
| topic | hail protection net fruit quality apple varieties |
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