Plants and Livestock Weather Relationship
Plants and Livestock Weather Relationship
Plants and Livestock Weather Relationship
YIELDS / PRODUCTION IN
RELATION TO WEATHER
ELEMENTS
PLANTS AND
LIVESTOCK
WEATHER
RELATION
ROMELITO F. BERDEJO
TOMATO
(Solanum lycopersicum)
Tomatoes are classified as fruit
because they contain seeds and
grow from the flower of the tomato
plant.
❑ Optimum temperature
is between 26ºC and 29ºC.
RELATIVE
HUMIDITY
❑It ranges between 65% and 85%.
❑ Higher relative humidity
levels negatively influence ❑ Low relative humidity
pollen release and can cause infertility,
distribution on the stigma. due to pollen drying
❑ High humidity can also out before germination
create a favorable of the pollen on the
environment for the stigma, which leads to
development of various small, deformed hollow
foliar disease. fruit.
❑ Incidence of blotchy
ripening also increases.
❑Low relative humidity can cause infertility, due to
pollen drying out before germination of the pollen on
the stigma, which leads to small, deformed hollow fruit.
LIGHT
❑ The daylight requirements
for tomatoes needs at least
eight (8) hours to produce
fruit.
TURKEY
▪ The name “turkey” is derived from the
fact that the birds resembled a
Turk wearing a fez.
▪ The bird will weigh on average 8 to 10
kg.
▪ A male Broad Breasted Bronze Turkey
is also known as “Meleagris
Gallopavo”