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Fruit Yielding Plants and Their Relative Preference in the Nurseries of Greater Dhaka District in Bangladesh

Md. Didarul Alam
Department of Botany, Jahangirnagar University

A.B.M. Enayet Hossain
Department of Botany, Jahangirnagar University

M.A. Rahim
Department of Horticulture,Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

A field survey on the floristic composition was conducted in the selected nurseries in and around the greater Dhaka district since October 2005 to March 2007. A total of 125 fruit yielding species and cultivars belonged to 41 genera under 28 families were found to be available in the nurseries under investigation. Anacardiaceae is the lone family contained the highest number (25) of species and cultivars. Among the fruit- yielding plants Mangifera indica was found to be the most preferred species having 95.56% relative preference.

Keywords: Fruit species, Relative preference, Greater Dhaka district.

Location: The floristic composition of the nurseries in the greater Dhaka district

Start Date: 00-10-2005

End Date: 00-03-2007

Program Area: Seed Technology

Non-commodity: Performance

Objectives:

1. The status of fruit yielding plants and their relative preference in the selected nurseries were investigated in and around the capital in the greater Dhaka district of Bangladesh.

Methodology:

To establish the database of the floristic composition of the nurseries in the greater Dhaka district, data were collected from the selected 90 nurseries under greater Dhaka district. For identification and confirmation, consultations were made with popular and reliable texts, experts and finally with the Bangladesh National Herbarium. For collection of primary data, a semi structured questionnaire had been served to the 90 respondents of the 90 privately owned nurseries under greater Dhaka district. All the data had been collected through deliberate interviews with the respondents.

Source of Information: J. Agrofor. Environ. 2(1): 1-6, 2008; ISSN 1995-6983

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Achievement/Findings:

A total of 925 species and cultivars under 413 genera were found to be available at the nurseries under investigation; of them, the total fruit yielding species and cultivars available in the selected nurseries were 125 under 41 genera, 28 families. The numbers of fruit yielding plants were found not to be static because of increasing demand and consequently the collection of new cultivars by the nurseries from home and abroad. So updating the number of species and cultivars of fruit yielding species by frequent survey together with updated conservation techniques are of immense importance.

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