Abstract:
Urban agriculture is the practice of cultivating, processing, and distributing food in
or around a village, town, or city. Roof top garden is suitable for vegetables
cultivation in our country. Tomato is an important vegetable of robi season and okra
and chili are important vegetables of summer season. This experiment was
conducted at roof of third floor of Biotechnology Department of Sher-e-Bangla
Agricultural University, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka during the period from
November 2015 to July 2016. The experiment was laid out in Completely
Randomized Design (CRD) having single factors with three replications. The
treatment of this experiment were T
1=
Straw mulch, T
2=
ii
Wood ash and T
3=
Control.
The seedlings of BARI tomato-3 and BARI morich – 1, seeds of BARI derosh 1
were collected from Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI),
Joydebpur, Gazipur. Plant height, stem diameter, number of leaves per plant of
tomato, okra and chili are superior in mulching than control. The total yield of
tomato, okra and chili were also varied significantly due to the application of
different mulching. The highest yield of tomato fruit (29.18 t/ha) was obtained from
T
2
(wood ash), while T
3
(control) gave the lowest (21.24 t/ha) yield. The highest
fruit yield of okra was recorded (13.48 t/ha) of T
2
(wood ash)
and the lowest yield
of okra was recorded (8.583 t/ha) of T
3
(control) which was statistically similar with
T
1
treatment. The maximum fruit yield of chili was recorded (2.8oo t/ha) of T
2
(wood ash)
and the minimum yield was (1.900 t/ha) of T
3
(control)
treatment. The
results clearly showed that the fruit yield per hectare was increased with the using
of mulch materials at rooftop garden. It is apparent that growth and yield of tomato,
okra and chili may be increased by using wood ash and straw as mulching materials
which create favorable climatic condition in soil environment.
Description:
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
IN
AGROFORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
