Increasing production efficiency and coping with climate change, while ensuring sustainability and resilience

The 3rd group of experiments (GE3) was designed to assess the effect of legume crops cultivated during autumn (from August to January) as cash crops or as green manure on the next tomato crop cultivated during spring (from February to July). Thus, GE3 included two experimental crops, one with legumes starting in August 2018 and terminated in January 2019 (GE3E1) and one with tomato, which started in February 2019 and terminated in July 2019 (GE3E2). In the experiment with legumes tested as preceding crops to tomato (GE3E1), four different treatments were established. In particular, treatment 1 (T1) was a cowpea crop cultivated as a cash crop aiming to produce cowpea pods during autumn 2018. Similarly,  treatment 2 (T2) was a common bean crop cultivated as a cash crop aiming to produce commercially marketable common bean pods during autumn 2018. Treatment 3 (T3) was a faba bean crop aiming to be incorporated to the soil at anthesis as green manure. Finally, Treatment 4 (T4) was a faba bean crop aiming to be incorporated to the soil at anthesis as green manure

第三组试验（GE3）旨在评估秋季（8月至次年1月）以经济作物（cash crop）或绿肥（green manure）方式种植的豆科作物，对下一季春季（2月至7月）种植的番茄作物的影响。本试验包含两个试验单元：其一为2018年8月播种、2019年1月收获的豆科作物试验（GE3E1），其二为2019年2月播种、2019年7月收获的番茄作物试验（GE3E2）。在以豆科作物作为番茄前茬作物（preceding crops）的试验（GE3E1）中，共设置四种不同处理方案。具体如下：处理1（T1）为豇豆经济作物，目标为在2018年秋季采收豇豆荚果；处理2（T2）为普通菜豆经济作物，目标为在2018年秋季采收可商业化销售的普通菜豆荚果；处理3（T3）为蚕豆作物，计划在开花期翻压入土作为绿肥；处理4（T4）为在开花期翻压入土作为绿肥的蚕豆作物。