Características morfológicas e produtividade de cultivares de alho em manejo orgânico na microrregião do Campo das Vertentes (MG)

Abstract

The economic importance of garlic has increased considerably in recent years and is cultivated in most of Brazil, is a vegetable that stands out not only for its use as a condiment, but also for its therapeutic properties. Garlic is a vegetable that has a lot of clones with different regional names, such fact makes many alicultores acquire materials unsuitable for planting their crops and gain regions with low productivity and low post-harvest storage. Thus, the present study aimed to evaluate the productivity of five garlic cultivars of seminoble group in organic management in the micro-region of the Campo das Vertentes - MG. The experimental design was randomized blocks with five treatments and four replications, using cv. Amarante, Cateto Roxo, Gigante Curitibanos, Gigante do Núcleo e Gigante Roxo. In the plots, each cultivar was arranged in five rows spaced 0.2 m with plants spaced 0.1 m within the row, for a total of 50 plants per plot. The five central lines were used for the evaluations forming a Useful plot equal to 1.2 m². We evaluated the plant height and number of green leaves at sixty, ninety and one hundred and twenty days, total production, mass loss during and after curing and commercial production. Cultivars Gigante do Núcleo, Gigante Curitibanos e Gigante Roxo achieved better performance, with yields above the state average and good commercial classification of bulbs.