Optimal Irrigation Scheduling for Greenhouse Tomato Crop (Solanum Lycopersicum L.) in Ecuador

Tomato crop is grown worldwide and considered a mass consumer product. In Ecuador, tomato growers face two major issues: water scarcity mismanagement, which cause reduction in the framers’ gross income ecosystem services. This paper aimed at finding an optimal irrigation scheduling greenhouse to achieve balance among production, fruit quality use efficiency. Thus, experiments were settled. first experiment, four doses (80, 100, 120 140% ETc) frequencies (one irrigations per day) compared. The second experiment evaluated best of one (100 120% day, every days, three days). Each monitored variables for production (plant height, stem diameter, fruits plant, yield) (pH, total soluble solids, titratable acidity). study concluded that affected more than frequency production. dose 100% ETc, applied suggested obtain between