Tomato

History

Introduction Origin Area and Production Uses

Introduction (Lycopersicon esculentum)

The tomato is one of the most important "protective foods" both because of its special nutritive value and also because of its widespread production.
It is the world's largest vegetable crop after potato and sweet potato, but it tops the list of canned vegetables.
Tomatos are used for soup, salad, pickles, ketchup, puree, sauces and in many other ways.
Tomatos have been used as food by the inhabitants of Central and South America since prehistoric times.
It has originated in Peruvian and Mexican regions.
It was introduced into Europe by the Spanish explorers in the early sixteenth century.
European migrants later on introduced it to the U. S. A. and Canada.
The Portuguese perhaps introduced it into India though there is no definite record of when and how it came to India.

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Origin

Tomato is said to be the native of tropical America.
The word tomato, not used until 1695, is said to be derived from the Aztec 'Xitomate' 'Sitotomate'.
From tropical America it spread to other parts of the world in the 16th century and it became popular in India within the last six decades.

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Area, Production and Productivity

Worldwide tomato Area, Production and Productivity during 2012

Country	Area in Ha	Production in Mt	Yield in Kg/Ha
World	4803680	161793834	33681
Brazil	63859	3873985	60664
China	1005003	50125055	49875
Cuba	43589	494432	11343
Egypt	216395	8625219	39858
India	870000	17500000	20114
Indonesia	56042	887556	15837
Mexico	96651	3433567	35525
Russia	117700	2456100	20867
Spain	48800	4007000	82110
Turkey	300000	11350000	37833
USA	150140	13206950	87964

Source: Faostat Citation

In the world China is the largest producer of tomato and next is our India.
Counties like Egypt, Russia, Turkey, USA etc are the major tomato producing countries.

Districtwise Area, Production & Productivity of Tomato in Telangana 2011-12

District	Area in Hectares	Production in tonnes	Yield in Kgs/ha
Mahaboobnagar	5069	27974	5510
Rangareddy	7955	72659	8096
Medak	3815	18383	7030
Nizamabad	2341	11319	6596
Adilabad	5227	16838	7681
Karimnagar	2294	7984	6497
Warangal	2652	11518	6701
Khammam	1124	5499	6987
Nalgonda	2051	8576	7176

Source: Season and Crop Report, AP Govt (erstwhile)

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Uses

Tomato is now the most widely grown vegetable crop in India. It is grown throughout the country in farm gardens, small home-gardens, and by market gardeners for fresh consumption as well as for processing purposes.
Tomatoes are good, whether fresh or canned.
They have an outstanding vitamin contents like ascorbic acid or vitamin C, vitamin A, thiamine or vitamin B1 and riboflavin or vitamin B2, in that order. Tomato is used in many ways.
It is taken cooked, raw or is made into soups, salads, preserves, pickles, chutneys, ketchups, sauces and many other products.

Nutritive Value

The outstanding value of the tomato as a source of special nutrients needed in the diet is indicated by its nutritive value (per 100 g of edible portion).

Moisture	93.1 g	Vitamin A	320I.U
Protein	1.9 g	Thiamin	0.07 mg
Fat	0.1 g	Riboflavin	0.01mg
Minerals	0.6 g	Nicotinic acid	0.4 mg
Fibber	0.7 g	Vitamin C	31 mg
Carbohydrates	3.6 g	Sodium	45.8 mg
Calcium	20 mg	Potassium	114 mg
Magnesium	15 mg	Copper	0.19 mg
Oxalic acid	2 mg	Sulfur	24 mg
Phosphorous	36 mg	Chlorine	38 mg
Iron	1.8 mg	Calories	23mg

The nutritive value varies in different varieties and also depends upon the environment in which it is grown.

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Telangana

Tomato

About Tomato

History
Morphology

Tomato Management

Services Overview

The key services offered by Ikisan are:

System study, design and development of IT enabled solutions and services for the agri sector.

Execution of rural IT enabled projects on BOT/BOOT/Turnkey basis.

Development, Customization and Deployment of Ikisan's IPR protected software applications.

Providing support services and best management practices for augmenting the marketing development efforts of the groups agricultural input companies (NFCL and NACL).

Development and Dissemination of best practice and information though a unique multi lingual knowledge website for the agri sector.

Some of the key customers/partners that benefit significantly from our work include are Electronics Corporation of India Ltd, State Agricultural Marketing Boards, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Tamil Nadu, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Motorola Mobility (GOOGLE) etc.

As highlighted earlier Ikisan provides significant support to the market development and marketing efforts of NFCL and NACL by providing best practices and information across the agricultural input value chain - weather, soil, seeds, fertilizers, water, pesticides, output prices etc. that have enabled the companies to develop deep customer relationships and in turn enable them to grow above market growth rates. Recently example in fertilizers includes the development of Customized Fertilizer Grades (for NFCL across India that are crop and location specific have not only reduced the current consumption of fertilizers of farmers but have significantly enhanced crop yields and farmer incomes) that are expected to add significant revenues to the company.

Currently, agriculture value chain is driven by technical expertise. However, there is a lack of adequate Management knowledge and skills amongst the professionals. Therefore, Ikisan and XLRI, Jamshedpur have jointly developed an Agri Business Management Program for Agri-professionals and students. Ikisan provides the domain expertise while XLRI provides pedagogy. This program is a combination of virtual learning and campus based module at XLRI, Jamshedpur. This program has been highly appreciated.

Intellectual Property Rights for many software applications such as Field Manager, Vyapar, Mandi, Quick Solutions Systems, Management Time Table, Agri Information System and Agrecommerz belong to Ikisan. A significant recent development in this area is the introduction of Weather Based Crop Insurance. This entails setting up of Automatic Weather Stations, which provide dynamic village-level data essential for settlement of weather based insurance claims.