Abstract:
ABSTRACT
An experiment was conducted at the research field of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural
University, Dhaka during the period from December, 2010 to May, 2011 to study
the influence of intercropping system in maize with chickpea, Grass pea, Mungbean,
and Groundnut. The trial was layed out in a Randomized Complete Block Design
(RCBD) with 3 replications. The experiment comprised of nine treatments viz, T
=
Sole maize, T
2
= Sole chickpea, T
3
= Sole Grass pea, T
4
= Sole Mungbean, T
= Sole
Groundnut, T
6
= Maize Paired row + 2 rows of chickpea, T
= Maize Paired row +
2 rows of Grass pea, T
8
7
= Maize Paired row + 2 rows of Mungbean, T
= Maize
Paired row + 2 rows of Groundnut. The collected data were statistically analyzed and
the means were adjudged by LSD at 5% level of significance. In case of maize the
tallest plant, highest number of cob/plant, cob length, cob diameter and yield was
recorded in treatment T
(sole maize) where as the highest thousand grain weight
was obtained from T
7
1
& T
i.e. maize intercrop with Grass pea and Mungbean
respectively. In intercropped plants though the highest yield and best yield
contributing characters except 1000 seed weight were from sole crop shall the
intercrop performed better in terms of economic contributing characters. Maize
Paired row + 2 rows of Mungbean showed better relative yield of maize than other
intercropping systems. All the intercropping systems showed higher net return than
sole maize or sole other intercrop. The highest net return (Tk 84200 ha
8
) was
recorded from T
6
though higher cost was involved and was followed by T
(Tk 79500
ha
-1
). The highest BCR (2.95) was obtained from T
6
followed by T
(2.93).So in this study intercropping paired rows of maize + two rows of
chickpea would agronomically feasible and economically profitable (i.e.,
maize equivalent yield, LER, relative yield, gross return, net return, BCR etc).
7
8
9
5
-1
(2.94) and T
1
8
Description:
A Thesis
Submitted to the Department of Agronomy
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree
of
MASTER OF SCIENCE
IN
AGRONOMY
SEMESTER: JANUARY-JUNE, 2010
