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Intercropping Jute Crop with Aman Rice- a New Approach for Off-season Jute Seed Production.

M. Salim
Department of Agronomy, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202.

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

Jute (Corchorus spp.) is the most important fibre crop in Bangladesh. About 6.5% of the foreign exchanges are being earned every year in this country by exporting raw jute and jute goods. Jute covers 1.01 million acres of land, which are about 4.5% of the total cropped area of the country. About 4000 tons of jute seed is required annually and BADC can barely supply 10% of the total requirement. Late or off-season jute seed production has appeared as an improved seed production technology in Bangladesh. The optimum time of off-season jute seed crop ranges between mid-August to mid-September. So the late sown jute seed crop become competitive to transplant aman (T. aman) rice which is the major rice crop of Bangladesh. Eventually, the farmers lose their interest to cultivated jute seed crop alone instead of growing T. aman rice. To solve the problem of competitiveness between T. aman rice and late sown jute seed crop, it is needed to explore the possibility of cultivation of the late sown jute seed crop under intercropping with T. aman rice. The project has run for two cropping seasons since September 2004. Two experiments on intercropping jute seed crop with aman rice were conducted during 2004-2005. In this reporting year (2005-06) an experiment entitled “Effect of relay intercropping with-stem cutting of jute seed crop (C. capsularis and C. oliforius) with transplant aman rice” was conducted to see the feasibility and performance of intercropping rice jute seed crop along with T. aman rice by transplanting stem cutting of jute.

Keywords: Seed prodcution, Rice, Jute

Location: Department of Agronomy, BAU.

Start Date: 01-07-2005

End Date: 30-06-2006

Program Area: Seed Technology

Commodity: Jute

Objectives:

1. To explore the possibility of cultivation of the late sown jute seed crop under intercropping with T. aman rice. 2. To see the feasibility and performance of intercropping rice jute seed crop along with T. aman rice by transplanting stem cutting of jute.

Methodology:

The experiment was conducted with six treatments including sole rice and three varieties of sole jute and their intercrop combination during May to November 2005. The experiment was laid in a Randomized Complete Block Design with three replications. Stem cutting of jute plant was relayed in the aman rice after its transplantation. The yield contributing data of the both crop were recorded.

Source of Information: BAU. Bangladesh Agricultural University Research Progress, Volume 17, Proceedings of the Workshop 03-04 December 2006, Bangladesh Agricultural University Research System (BAURES), Mymensingh. Bangladesh.

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Achievement/Findings:

The result indicates that the yield and yield contributing characters of rice were not significantly affected due to intercropping. Among the jute varieties tested the capsularis one i. e., CVL-1 produced highest seed yield when it was sole cropped but failed to perform best when it was intercropped among the treatments. The varieties can be ranked for competitiveness as: Falgooni Tossa > CVL-1 > 04, though CVL-1 and 04 produced statistically similar yields. Though intercropping shows clear advantage for obtained an extra yield of jute seed crop but to attain a sound conclusion on intercropping jute seed crop with aman rice, the same experiment needs to the conducted again.

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