The field experiment was conducted during the rabi season of 2005-06 in the farmer's field of Multi-location Testing (MLT) site, Melandah, Jamalpur to evaluate the performance of sweet potato varieties as well as to determine the optimum dose of fertilizer of sweet potato. Two varieties of sweet potato viz., i) BARI Sweet Potato-5 and ii) BARI Sweet Potato-7 and five fertilizer doses viz., i) Estimated fertilizer dose for average yield goal (EDI for average yield goal), ii) Integrated Plant Nutrient System (IPNS) basis fertilizer dose, iii) Fertilizer Recommendation Guide' 97, iv) Farmer's practice, and v) Control. The highest sweet potato yield was obtained from BARI SP-7 with (IPNS) basis fertilizer doses (33.9 t/ha). The lowest sweet potato yield was obtained from BARI SP-7 with control treatment. The highest gross return (112700 Tk./ha) and gross margin (10756 Tk./ha) was recorded from IPNS basis fertilizer treatment. The lowest gross return (40950 Tk./ha) and gross margin (40951) Tk./ha) was recorded from control treatment. But the cost and return analysis showed that the highest benefit cost ratio (24.95) and marginal rate of return (1452) was found from FRG/97 treatment due to lower additional cost.
Experiments were conducted at Hill Agricultural Research Station, Khagrachari during the period from November to February in 2005-06 and 2006-07 to determine the appropriate irrigation schedule for carrot production in hill valley. The experiment consisted of five treatments of irrigation after plant established viz. No irrigation (I 0 ), irrigation at 1W: CPE of 0.6 (I 1 ), irrigation at 1W: CPE of 0.8 (1 2 ), irrigation at 1W: CPE of 1.0 (I 3 ) and irrigation at 1W: CPE of 1.2 (I 4 ). The amount of irrigation water (IW) was fixed at 4 cm. The experiment was laid out in RCBD with 3 replications. The treatments significantly influenced the growth, yield contributing characters and yield of carrot. Among the treatments, irrigation at IW: CPE of 1.2 gave the maximum yield (51.47 t/ha) which received 4 irrigations after plant stand with applied total irrigation water of 16 cm resulting in the highest net return of Tk. 120,443 with the highest BCR of 2.41. It also produced carrot at the lowest production cost of Tk. 1.66 per kg. Irrigation water use efficiency was obtained 1705.63 kg/ha/cm by this treatment.
The experiment was carried out in the Old Brahmaputra Floodplain soil at the farmer's field of Farming System Research and Development (FSRD) site, Kushumhati, Sherpur under Sherpur district in the medium high land under AEZ-9 for the three consecutive years 2003-06 to determine economic combined dose of organic and inorganic fertilizers for Potato-Boro-T.aman cropping pattern. Six treatment management packages including one farmer's practices, and one fertilizer control were tested. The other four treatments were soil test based (STB) fertilizer dose for moderate and high yield goals (MYG and HYG), STB based fertilizer dose for HYG plus 5 t/ha cowdung (IPNS) and fertilizer dose for Fertilizer Recommendation Guide'97 (FRG '97). Average of three years' results showed that recommended fertilizer dose based on the FRG '97 was more economic than all other fertilizer doses for the whole pattern. But the treatment Integrated Plant Nutrition Systems based on fertilizer management with cowdung for high yield goal produced the maximum grain and straw yields in the first crop. Application of cowdung had no significant effect on the yield of succeeding crops. The variable cost was higher for the treatment consisting of cowdung due to additional cost of cowdung. The highest marginal rate of return 1626% was obtained from recommended fertilizer based on the FRG '97.
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