Intercropping of Different Short Duration Crops with Sugarcane

Abstract

A field experiment was conducted at Multi Location Testing (MLT) site Barura under on-farm research division, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Cumilla (AEZ 19) during 2014-16 to find out suitable vegetable intercropping with sugarcane and also to estimate the profitability of intercropping with sugarcane at Cumilla region. From the research result it was revealed that yield of sole sugarcane was 92.47 t ha-1 whereas for different crop combination with sugarcane such as sugarcane plus cabbage, sugarcane plus cauliflower, sugarcane plus potato, sugarcane plus garden pea and sugarcane plus garlic the adjusted sugarcane yield were 143.36, 122.90, 99.02, 97.19 and 125.15 t ha -1 respectively. Maximum gross return of Tk. 1433600 ha-1 and net return of Tk. 683788 ha-1 came from sugarcane plus cabbage followed by sugarcane plus garlic, sugarcane plus cauliflower and sugarcane plus garden pea. On the other hand, for sole sugarcane gross return and net return were Tk. 924700 and Tk. 214388 ha-1 respectively significantly less than all intercropping combinations with sugarcane. From economic analysis it was showed that highest benefit cost ratio (1.91) came from sugarcane combination with cabbage and lowest from sole sugarcane (1.30).