PERFORMANCE OF TURMERIC (Curcuma longa) UNDER Eucalyptus Tereticornis BASED AGROFORESTRY SYSTEM IN PLAINS OF CHHATTISGARH
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2020
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Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur
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The present investigation entitled “Performance of Turmeric under Eucalyptus tereticornis based Agroforestry System in Plains of Chhattisgarh” was carried out at Biodiversity Park cum Botanical garden of Indira Gandhi Agriculture University, Raipur during 2017-2018, Objectives are to To study the effect of Eucalyptus on growth and yield behavior of two variety of Curcuma longa (Turmeric) and To study the growth behavior of tree under Agroforestry system. The design of the experiment was factorial RBD under two cropping system viz; open field and agroforestry, turmeric crop was two variety ranga and roma, turmeric crop was cultivated with three different spacing treatments i.e. S-1 (50cm x 50cm), S-2 (50cm x 30cm) and (40cm x 30cm). The growth as well yield parameter of turmeric crop such as plant height, tillers per plant, number of leaves per plant leave size similarly; mother rhizome length of fingers and yield of rhizome (q ha-1) were studied. The plant height was maximum 83.67cm,leaves size 210.16cm2 ,no. of finger 4.88 and length of finger 4.90cm in open field and tillers plant-1 2.96, no. of leaves 20.96 plant-1 in agroforestry system. The fresh yield obtained from open field was 225.79 qha-1 while agroforestry system 149.80 qha-1 reduced by 33.77% with statistically non-significant. In case of variety Ranga (V-1) produced maximum fresh yield of 196.06 qha-1 as compare to roma (V-2) 179.53 qha-1 . in Case spacing S-1 produced maximum fresh yield of 197.63 qha-1 . The height (m) of Eucalyptus tereticornis was 20.26 m ± 2.97 before sowing of turmeric crop which increased by 1.03m with MAI of 1.12 m while collar diameter (cm) increased by 1.00cm and diameter at breast height (cm) was increased by 0.87 cm of twelve month of growth. Agroforestry gave better results for growth parameters while open field gave better yield of turmeric crop. In agroforestry long term cultivation of shade loving crop always gave economical viable system.
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PERFORMANCE OF TURMERIC (Curcuma longa) UNDER Eucalyptus Tereticornis BASED AGROFORESTRY SYSTEM IN PLAINS OF CHHATTISGARH
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