VARIETAL PERFORMANCE OF TURMERIC UNDER LITCHI BASED AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS
Date
2012-01
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HAJEE MOHAMMAD DANESH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY, DINAJPUR.
Abstract
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Bangladesh is an agrarian country enjoying tropical to sub-tropical
- Climate. Her population is 152.3 millions in an area of 147570 sq km with
a growth rate of 1.54% (BBS, 2011). The total forest area of the nation
covers about 13.36% of the land (BBS, 2010). However, according to the
Forest Master Plan and surveys conducted by multinational donor
agencies, only 6% or a total of 0.769 million hectares land of the territory
has actual tree coverage (Anonymous, 2009). But to have benefits of the
nature, any state should have at least 25% of her land covered with
forests. So, the dominion is suffering from inadequate forest coverage
coupled with over population for a limited land. The realm has neither the
ability to increase command areas of agricultural crops nor to increase the
forest area for ecological demands. Under these fatal situations, various
agroforestry systems like forest or fruit tree based agroforestry system
~ can address the stress of the day to considerable extents.
Keywords
A sustainable land use technology, Benefits from agroforestry system, Effect of light intensity on turmeric production