http://localhost:8080/handle/123456789/3120 2026-04-08T15:01:27Z http://localhost:8080/handle/123456789/4773 A STUDY ON THE AVAILABILITY OF MEDICINAL PLANTS FOUND IN THE HOMESTEADS OF KALIAKOIR UPAZILA OF GAZIPUR DISTRICT AFRIN, SADIA Medicinal plants are known as the beneficial plants form the prehistoric times. Therefore, an investigation was done to know the density, factors of medicinal species plantation by the farmers in the homesteads in Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur. Information was gathered through a set of questionnaire. 82 no. respondents were randomly selected in four villages of 2 unions. Eleven chose attributes of the homesteaders was taken as autonomous factors. The attributes were age, education, family size, homestead area, plantation area, annual income from medicinal plants, organizational participation, training exposure, environmental awareness, knowledge about medicinal plants and number of medicinal plants. The discoveries in regard of assessment with Bel (2.41%), Desi Neem (1.35%), Sajna (1.25%), Akon (0.73%) and Tulsi (0.72%) was found dominant medicinal species. Young aged (43.9%) people found in number, among the respondents. Most of them completed primary level (53.7%), medium size families (50%), medium (63.4%) homestead area, small (76.8%) plantation area, medium income (81.7%), low organizational participation (58.5%), most of them with low training exposure (50%), medium environmental awareness (39.1%), medium Knowledge (54.9%), medium medicinal plants (62.2%) was observed. There was significant connection between density of medicinal plant with age, education, annual income and Organizational participation, training exposure and number of medicinal plants. Therefore it was found that variables were highly interlinked with density of medicinal plants in homesteads. Further study should be carried out to investigate so that clear and deeper information may found. A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Agriculture, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTERS OF SCIENCE IN AGROFORESTRY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/handle/123456789/4772 USE OF GRASS CLIPPINGS ENHANCES THE MATURITY AND STABILITY OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE INTO COMPOST LIKHON, MD. MAHMUDUL HASAN More than thirteen thousand metric ton of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) is generated each day in Bangladesh currently where only 37% are collected by the authority. Experts predict that more than 47 Metric ton of MSW will be generated by 78 million of urban people by in 2020. So the management of MSW is and will be one of the major challenges of Municipal Authority of Bangladesh. Improper management of municipal solid waste (MSW) causes hazards to inhabitants. Various studies reveal that about 90% of MSW is disposed of unscientifically in open dumps and landfills, creating problems to public health and the environment. Bioconversion of MSW can be a better alternative to avoid environmental pollution. But the decomposition of MSW is not the best way for compost preparation. Grass Clippings (GC) at optimum level can help promote the compost process in more effective way. Optimum amount of GC along with optimum level of cow dung (CD) for the compost preparation from MSW are critically studied. In this study, MSW amended with bulking materials GC and nitrogen source cow dung (CD) were evaluated for improved stability and maturity during composting of MSW where 15 kg GC and 5 kg of CD showed the most promising efficiency in terms of physical, and chemical parameters. The study is concluded with a few fruitful suggestions that is use of other lignocellulosic materials like water hyacinth and herbaceous weeds can also be used instead of grass clippings which may be beneficial to encourage the competent authorities/researchers to work towards further improvement of the present system. A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Agriculture, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE (MS) IN AGROFORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/handle/123456789/3127 STUDY ON TREE-CROP-LIVESTOCK INTERACTION WITH ENVIRONMENT IN THE RURAL AREAS OF SIRAJGANJ AHMED, MOST. ISMAT SADIA Agroforestry is a land use management system in which trees or shrubs are grown around or among crops or pastureland. This intentional combination of agriculture and forestry has varied benefits, including increased biodiversity and reduced erosion. Livestock-based Agroforestry or mixed farming systems provide important opportunities for increasing food production from farm animals. The objectives of the study were characterization of livestock-based agroforestry systems in the rural area of Sirajganj district and to know the interaction among tree, crop, livestock with environment in the study area. The study was conducted in ten villages of two Upazilas of Sirajganj district in February to December 2017. A well-structured questionnaire was developed based on objectives for collecting information by purposive random sampling method of 50 respondents. Maximum people of the villages were farmers and agricultural production was their main occupation. There were different agroforestry systems found in the study area namely- Agri-silviculture (15), Silvopasture (10) and Agro-silvopasture (25) where different types of agroforestry practices were observed like mango based agroforestry (12), jackfruit based agroforestry (28) etc. The farmers practiced tree plantation and livestock rearing. To conserve the soil of land and to protect the soil from washed away, for getting different usable products farmers planted different tree species. Among fruit trees 84% farmers had mango tree, and among timber tree 96% respondents had Eucalyptus. There were different interaction among tree-crop-livestock and environment. By Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient it was observed that, there was a statistically significant relationship among tree-crop-livestock and environment and farm size that was 0.747, road side plantation that was 0.934 and production of the farmers that was 0.674 respectively. This study would therefore make use of the local knowledge of farmers to understand the tree-crop-livestock interactions on small holder farms and advice on which agroforestry practices best for sustainable agro-ecological intensification. A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Agriculture Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka In partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE IN AGROFORESTRY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE SEMESTER: JANUARY-JUNE, 2018 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/handle/123456789/3126 CONTRIBUTION OF HOMESTEAD AGROFORESTRY PRACTICETOWARDS REDUCING POVERTY OF JALOKATHI DISTRICT FERDOUS, JANNATUL Homestead Agroforestry is an important consideration for socioeconomic development in our country and also all over the world. Systematic Agroforestry practice is being popular day by day in Jalokahti district of Bangladesh. Considering the situation, the present study aims to contribution of homestead Agroforestry practice towards reducing poverty of Jalokathi District and explore the contribution of the selected characteristics of the homestead farmers on homestead Agroforestry practice. Data were collected by purposive random sampling method of 60 respondents from 350 farmers of three villages of Jalokathi union of Jalokathi Sadar upazila under Jalokathi district by using a pretested interview schedule during the period of 15 June 2017 to 15 December, 2017. Data were analyzed by SPSS version 16. Findings indicated that near about half (48%) of the respondents had high knowledge on homestead production and high Agroforestry contribution (household income) (52%) to reduce poverty under managed Agroforestry. Unmanaged Agroforestry also contributed to reduce poverty (77% with medium household income) but lower than managed Agroforestry system. Out of 8 selected characteristics of the respondents, educational qualification, homestead size, current housing condition, current household assets, current sanitation system and knowledge on Agroforestry had positive significant relationship with Contribution of homestead Agroforestry (i.e. household income) towards reducing poverty. The rest of the variables namely: age and family size did not show any significant relationships with Contribution of homestead Agroforestry (i.e. household income) towards reducing poverty. A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Agriculture Sher -e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTERS OF SCIENCE IN AGROFORESTRY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE SEMESTER: JANUARY- JUNE, 2018 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z