Varietal Performance of Turmeric under Mango Based Agroforestry System

An experiment was carriedout at the Agroforestry and Environment Research Farm, Hajee Mohammad DaneshScience and Technology University, Dinajpur, Bangladesh, during April, 2014 toJanuary 2015. The experiment was laid out in two factors Randomized CompleteBlock Design (RCBD) with three replications. Among the two factors, one factorlike A was two production systems: S1 = Mango + Turmeric and S2 = Turmeric (sole crop); another factor like Bwas three turmeric variety: V1 = BARI Holud-1, V2 = BARIHolud-2 and V3 = BARI Holud-3. So, the treatment combinations were:S1V1 = Mango + BARI Holud-1, S1V2 =Mango + BARI Holud-2, S1V3 = Mango + BARI Holud-3,S2V1 = sole cropping of BARI Holud-1, S2V2 = sole cropping of BARI Holud-2 and S2V3 = sole croppingof BARI Holud-3. Theresult of the experiment revealed that interaction effect of production systemsand variety was found significant on plant height, number of leaf per plant,length of leaf blade, breadth of leaf blade, number of finger per rhizome,fresh and dry yield per hectare. The higher fresh yield of turmeric (34.75t/ha) and dry yield (6.10 t/ha) was found from S1V1 treatment (Mango + BARIHolud-1). Whereas the lowest fresh yield (33.41 t/ha) and dry yield (4.93 t/ha) was found from S2V2 treatment (sole cropping of BARI Holud-2). However, the suitability of thecultivation of different turmeric variety under mango based agroforestrysystems may be ranked as S1V1 u003e S2V1 u003e S1V3 u003e S2V3 u003e S1V2 u003e S2V2. Finallyit may be concluded that, BARI Holud-1 would be the best variety to be grown under mangobased agroforestry.