Abstract

An experiment was conducted at the Agronomy Field Laboratory, University of Rajshahi during the period from June, 2015 to December 2015 to study the effect of Integrated Crop Management (ICM) practice for increasing rice production in Barind area, Bangladesh. The experiment consisted of two factors that is, two variety which is BRRI dhan56 and BRRI dhan57, and five management practices like control, only weed management, only pest management, farmers practices and ICM practice. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Completely Block Design (RCBD) with three replications. Among the management practices, ICM gave the highest number of tillers plant-1, effective tillers plant-1, panicle length, number of grains panicle-1 and 1000-grain weight, and the lowest results were found in control. Between two varieties, BRRI dhan 56 produced the highest yield components like effective tillers plant-1, number of grains panicle-1 and 1000-grain weight than BRRI dhan 57. BRRI dhan 56 produced the highest grain yield than BRRI dhan 57 when the field was treated with ICM. So it can be concluded that the farmers are  advised to cultivate BRRI dhan 56 and adopt  ICM for maximizing rice production in Barind area in Bangladesh.    Key words: Rice, variety, Integrated Crop Management (ICM), yield, Barind area.

Highlights

  • Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to climate change

  • An experiment was conducted at the Agronomy Field Laboratory, University of Rajshahi during the period from June, 2015 to December 2015 to study the effect of Integrated Crop Management (ICM) practice for increasing rice production in Barind area, Bangladesh

  • ICM gave the highest number of tillers plant-1, effective tillers plant-1, panicle length, number of grains panicle-1 and 1000-grain weight, and the lowest results were found in control

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Summary

INTRODUCTION

Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to climate change. In particular, impact of climate variability on the agriculture and consequence on different other sectors are already evident in the drought prone High Barind tract regions. Moisture capacity of High Barind Tract soil is poor due to critical organic matter contents and low infiltration of water These situration make the area drought prone along with poor crop productivity. The farmers apply different agro-chemicals such as fungicide, insecticide, herbicide etc in the field indiscriminately They used chemical fertilizer in higher dose with a view to increase the yield of rice. ICM practice plays a significant role in producing higher yield of rice among the different practices It helps in the maintenance of soil structure and fertility, improvement of soil fertility, prevent buildup of pests, diseases and weeds, prevent damage to soil, water, avoid loss of biodiversity and reduce environmental damage and production cost, while majority of the farmers are not generally not aware and not following ICM practices.

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