Abstract:
A field experiment was conducted at the Horticulture Farm of Sber-e-Bangla
Agricultural University, Dhaka during the period from November 2007 to
February
2002 to investigate the effect of different seed tuber and mulch practices
on growth and yield of potato. The experiment was conducted with three types of
seed tuber; seedling tuber from TPS (Ti), microtuber from tissue culture (T
2
) and
traditional tuber (T3
) and four mulching teatments no mulch (M0), straw (M
1 ),
water hyacinth (M2) and black polythene mulch (M3) .
The experiment was laid out
in Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with 12 treatments combinations
and three replications. The highest yield of tuber (25.71 tlha)
was obtained from T1
and T3
gave lowest (21.46 tlha)..On the other hand M3 gave maximum yield of
tuber (27.92 ton/ha) and M
0
gave minimum (19.56 tiha).For combined effect T1 M3
gave maximum yield (31.67 dIm) and minimum (14.70 slIm) was obtained from
T2M0
The highest benefit cost ratio (19)
was obtained from T,M3 and the lowest
(1.6) was obtained from T
2M0 .So seedling tuber with black polythene was best for
growth and yield of potato.
