The following are the advantages of raising tomatoes in a nursery:
1. It is easier to manage a nursery because it is small
2. It reduces/optimizes the use of seeds
3. It reduces the tomato cycle by approximately one month
4. It enables the farmer to only transplant the best seedlings from the nursery.
MUNYAO DAVID answered the question on February 6, 2018 at 10:37
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