PRODUÇÃO DE ALFACE BABY LEAF UTILIZANDO ÁGUA DE PISCICULTURA

Abstract

Baby leaf is a recent product on the market, obtained through the early harvest of traditional sized lettuce species. The objective of this work was to evaluate the production of two species of baby leaf lettuce with reuse of water from fish farming. The experiment was performed with 2 lettuce cultivars (crespa roxa and crespa verde), with well and pisciculture water irrigation, totalizing 4 treatments with 5 repetitions. Height, number of leaves, leaf length, fresh mass and dry mass were evaluated. There was a significant difference in the length of the largest leaf in the purple head lettuce irrigated with pisciculture water, in the fresh and dry mass in the green head lettuce with pisciculture water differed from the purple head lettuce, with better averages. Lettuce using fishpond water is a sustainable alternative for baby leaf production.