PRODUCTIVITY AND PROFITABILITY OF MORINGA-RED AMARANTH BASED AGRISILVICULTURAL FARMING SYSTEM

Abstract

An experiment was conducted to assess the productivity and profitability of Moringa-Red Amaranth based agrisilvicultural farming system at the Agroforestry Field under the Department of Agroforestry and Environmental Science, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University during the period from 1

December 2020 to January 2021. Four treatments namely, T = 30 cm distance from the tree base, T 2 = 50 cm distance from the tree base, T ii

1 = 75 cm distance from the tree base and T 4 3 = Open field referred to as control, were used in Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD). The highest leaf length (9.30 cm) and breadth (6.17 cm) were found in T treatment. The maximum yield of red amaranth (14.25 t/ha) was observed in T 4 treatment. Apart from control, the highest fresh weight (37.00 g), dry weight (1.13 g) and yield (12.69 ton ha 4 ) were also obtained in T treatment. Thus, it revealed that in association with Moringa sapling the best yield performance of red-amaranth was found at the plants belong to treatment T 3 . In Moriga based agroforestry system calculated BCR was 6.48 found in T 3 3 treatment.