Abstract
Performance of Mangrove Species Planted inside Sonneratia apetala Buch. Ham. Plantations in the Coastal Belt of Bangladesh
Highlights
Bangladesh coastline is over 710 km long along the Bay of Bengal and comprises numerous char and offshore islands of varying sizes (Siddiqi, 2001)
This paper describes sustainability and growth performance of 21 years old underplanted mangrove species inside S. apetala plantations in Rangabali island of Patuakhali district and Char Kukri-Mukri island of Bhola district, Bangladesh
The highest survival was recorded for A. corniculatum (62%) followed by P. paludosa (55%), E. agallocha (54%), H. fomes (49%), X. mekongensis (48%) at Rangabali
Summary
Bangladesh coastline is over 710 km long along the Bay of Bengal and comprises numerous char and offshore islands of varying sizes (Siddiqi, 2001). Bangladesh Forest Department started coastal plantations on the newly accreted lands in 1966 with the primary objective to protect the lives and properties of the coastal people from cyclone and tidal bore (Das and Siddiqi, 1985). Most of the commercial mangrove species were tried on newly accreted char lands. Among these species, only Sonneratia apetala Buch.-Ham. (keora) was the most successful species all along the coastline, while Avicennia officinalis L. S. apetala accounted 94.4% and A. officinalis 4.8% of the successful mangrove plantations (Siddiqi and Khan, 2004). A total of 0.192 million hectares mangrove plantations were raised in the newly accreted lands till 2013 (Hassan, 2013)
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