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TRADITIONAL PRACTICES OF AGARWOOD (Aquilaria malaccensis) PLANTATION IN MOULVIBAZAR OF BANGLADESH (Pages : 44 - 49)

Bangladesh is favorable for commercial agarwood (Aquilaria malaccensis) production but very few research works were done in the study area on good agricultural practices. The study was carried out to document the typical management practices of agarwood tree in Barlekha upazila of Moulvibazar district, during September 2017 to March 2018. Total 104 agarwood gardeners and workers of agarwood garden from 14 villages of Barlekha upazila in Moulvibazar district were randomly selected for the study. Data were collected through face-to-face interview using a structured questionnaire. Most of the respondents (80%) used seedling collected from nursery and planted mostly in the month of May-June, whereas only 20% of the respondents used seed for agar cultivation maintaining plant spacing mostly of 0.60-1.0m × 1.2-2.0m. It was found that seedling used for agarwood plantation was less than one-year and majority of them didn’t use fencing. The findings also revealed that agar trees gave flower after 6-10 years. In the study area, only 8% farmers used fertilizer and manure in agarwood cultivation. Insect-pest infestation in agarwood plants was 45%.There was no modern agronomic practices in the study area, which was major reason behind the low quality and quantity of agarwood production in Bangladesh which implies the urgency of research and extension of good agricultural practices on agarwood plantation connected with SDG1 and SDG13. Download