Effect of Supporters on Yield and Quality of Black Pepper in Hilly Region
Author : SM Faisal, RH Nitol, NF Rownok and H Nesa
Abstract :
An investigation was carried out from July, 2022 to march, 2023 in existing black pepper orchard at Hill Tract Agricultural Research Station to find out suitable support for yield and quality black pepper production in hilly region. There were three support tree were used as treatment viz.. T1=Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus), T2= Mango (Mangifera indica) and T3= Chapalish (Artocarpus chama). There were no significant differences among treatments under the parameters studied. The highest (1514) and the lowest (1142) spikes/plant was obtained from mango and jackfruit supporters, respectively. In case of fruit wight/spike, black peeper vines supported by jackfruit tree gave the highest (5.67 gm) fruit weight followed by chapalish (4.63 gm), respectively. Fresh fruit yield/support tree was varied from 6.89 kg to 6.47 kg, respectively. The highest fresh fruit yield (6.89 kg) was recorded from black peeper vines supported by mango tree followed by jackfruit tree (6.53 kg) and the lowest yield (6.47 kg) obtained from chapalish tree. The highest (1.91 kg) dry fruit yield/support tree was obtained from black peeper vines grown on jackfruit, followed by mango tree (1.58 kg) and the lowest (1.57 kg) dry fruit yield was recorded from chapalish tree.
Keywords :
Supporter, yield, hill, jackfruit
