AGRO-ECONOMIC PRODUCTIVITY OF PANIKACHU AND POTATO INTERCROPPING IN SHALLOW DITCHES

Abstract

A two-year field trial was carried out to study the performance of intercropping potato (Solarium tuberosum L.) with panikachu (Colocassia esculenta L. Schott.) following two different methods of potato plantation at farming system research site, Kanaipur, Faridpur. Among the treatments panikachu+ potato (surface plantation method) intercropping equivalent yield (73.7 t/ha). The same treatment also gave the highest gross margin (Tk. 112930/ha) and marginal rate of return (352%) over other treatments.