Performance of sweet potato varieties in hilly area

Authors

  • M Shaheenuzzamn Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Gazipur
  • RR Saha Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Gazipur
  • A Biswas Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Gazipur
  • MS Islam Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Gazipur

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3329/baj.v17i2.24656

Keywords:

Sweet potato varieties, hilly areas, ?-carotene

Abstract

The experiment was conducted at the research field of Hill Tract Agricultural Research Station. Ramgarh, Khagrachari during Rabi season of 2012-2013 and 2013-14. Five different sweet potato varieties (BARI Sweetpotato-6, BARI Sweetpotato-7, BARI Sweetpotato-8, BARI Swwetpotato-9 and local cultivar were included as treatment variables in the experiment. BARI Sweetpotato-7 had significantly more number of vines (8.30) as compared to local cultivar and other new varieties such as BARI Sweetpotato-6, BARI Sweetpotato-8 and BARI Sweetpotato-9. Maximum number of tuber plant-1 (5.4 and 5.3), tuber length (15.30 and 15.80 cm), tuber diameter (5.10 and 5.20 cm), individual tuber weight (368.35 and 377.69 g) and tuber yield (19.89 and 20.13 t ha-1) was recorded from BARI Sweetpotato-9 during 2012-13 and 2013-14, respectively whereas local cultivar gave minimum values. The variety BARI Sweetpotato-9 out yielded local cultivar by 108.93 and 103.13 % during two consecutive years but  highest net income (3,10,818 and 3, 15,617 Tk. ha-1) from  BARI Sweetpotato-7

Bangladesh Agron. J. 2014, 17(2): 83-87

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Published

2015-08-22

How to Cite

Shaheenuzzamn, M., Saha, R., Biswas, A., & Islam, M. (2015). Performance of sweet potato varieties in hilly area. Bangladesh Agronomy Journal, 17(2), 83–87. https://doi.org/10.3329/baj.v17i2.24656

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Vol. 17 No. 2 (2014)

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