31Dec 2015

INFLUENCE OF THE NUMBER OF SEEDLINGS PER HILL ON THE PERFORMANCE OF TRADITIONAL RICE CULTIVAR MOULATA IN TIDAL FLOODPLAIN OF SOUTHERN DELTA REGION OF BANGLADESH

  • Agrarian Research Foundation, House No. 48, Road No. 5, Shekhertek, Mohammadpur, Dhaka 1215, Bangladesh.
  • Agronomy Department, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka 1215, Bangladesh.
  • Krishi Gobeshona Foundation, BARC Complex, Farmgate, Dhaka 1215, Bangladesh.
  • Agronomy Department, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur 1706, Bangladesh.
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Inundation of land due to tidal flooding is a major constraint of crop production in the Southern Delta region of Bangladesh. Aman rice is the only crop grown during the rainy season when the land remains inundated for an extended period April through November. Farmers grow low yielding, tall statured traditional cultivars. A participatory on-farm trial was conducted in two widely dispersed villages of Jhalakati district during 2011-2012 season to optimize seedling number per hill to increase grain yield of rice under tidal wetland condition. Three variables - farmers’ usual practice, 5 seedlings and 7 seedlings per hill were tested. Transplanting 7 seedlings per hill contributed to higher yield compared with transplanting 5 seedlings per hill or farmers’ practice of random transplanting. Higher yield was associated with greater number of panicles per unit area and increased number of filled spikelets per panicle.

[Md. Jafar Ullah, M. Moksedur Rahman, Md. Rafiqul Islam Molla, M.F. H. Mollah, M. Nurul Alam, Md. Moynul Haque and Abdul Hamid (2015); INFLUENCE OF THE NUMBER OF SEEDLINGS PER HILL ON THE PERFORMANCE OF TRADITIONAL RICE CULTIVAR MOULATA IN TIDAL FLOODPLAIN OF SOUTHERN DELTA REGION OF BANGLADESH Int. J. of Adv. Res. 3 (Dec). 143-148] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

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