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Yield Performance Of Organic Sweetpotato Varieties In Various Mulches, Sochinwechi Nwosisi, Dilip Nandwani, Bharat Pokharel

Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Faculty Research

Interest in organic sweetpotato production in the United States has been growing as consumers and producers are becoming increasingly concerned about how their food is cultivated. Thus, there is a growing need for information on sweetpotato production and variety selection under an organic management production system. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of various mulches on yields—total and marketable—of fourteen sweetpotato varieties grown under organic management. Three types of mulch, wheat straw, pine needle, and black plastic, and a control (no mulch) were evaluated during the 2016 growing season. The wheat straw mulch yielded significantly higher …