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- Title
ASSESSMENT OF THE PROFITABILITY AND PRODUCTIVITY OF JUTE-T. AMAN-MAIZE CROPPING PATTERN AT CHAR LAND IN JAMALPUR DISTRICT OF BANGLADESH.
- Authors
Ashrafi, R.; Ahmed, K. U.; Khan, M. R.; Khan, ASM. M. R.
- Abstract
People living in the char land area are considered the most disadvantaged group of people in Bangladesh. Considering the situation, a study was conducted to evaluate the feasibility of increasing income of char dwellers by following profitable cropping pattern. The treatments were CP1 (Farmers' practice cropping pattern): Grass pea (BARI Khesari-1)-Jute (var. JRO 524)-T. Aman (var. Swarna) and CP2 (Altered cropping pattern): Maize (var. Hybrid 981)-Jute (var. JRO 524)-T. Aman (var. Binadhan-11). A randomized complete block design with six dispersed replications was followed in this experiment. It was observed that the altered cropping pattern (CP2) produced higher rice equivalent yield (avg. 25.47 t ha-1), production efficiency (78.61 kgha-1 day-1) and gross margin US$ 3056.58 ha-1 than those of the farmer's practice cropping pattern (CP1) rice equivalent yield (12.97 t ha-1), production efficiency (40.40 kgha-1 day-1) and gross margin (Tk. 79,950 ha-1). Gross margin increased by 206% in altered cropping pattern compared with the existing cropping pattern, revealing that rabi crop based cropping pattern including flood damage escaping rice varieties {Maize (var. Hybrid 981)-Jute (var. JRO 524)-T. Aman (var. Binadhan-11)} is appropriate for getting higher productivity and profitability by the poor char dwellers of Jamalpur district in Bangladesh.
- Subjects
BANGLADESH; CROPPING systems; FLOOD damage; CHAR; COMBUSTION; GROSS margins; RICE
- Publication
SAARC Journal of Agriculture, 2022, Vol 20, Issue 2, p121
- ISSN
1682-8348
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3329/sja.v20i2.63571