BANGLADESH JOURNAL OF FOREST SCIENCE
A Half-yearly Peer Reviewed Journal of Bangladesh Forest Research Institute
A Half-yearly Peer Reviewed Journal of Bangladesh Forest Research Institute
Schumannianthus dichotoma (Family-Marantaceae), locally known as patipata, is cultivated in water logged and swampy lands over the
greater part of Bangladesh. Plantations of S. dichotoma are established using rhizomes (Mohiuddin and Rashid 1988, Rashid et al. 1993).
Attempts have been made at Bangladesh Forest Research Institute (BFRI), Chittagong to raise seedlings of this species from fruits which are available free of cost as they have no utility. This paper describes the method of nursery development from collection of fruits to raising of seedlings in polybags.
Keora (Sonneratiaapetala Buch.-Ham.faccourds for almost 95% of the successful mangrove plantations in the coastal areas of Bangladesh (RIMS 1997). In Chittagong coast, it constitutes 22% of the plantations. It is not much commercially valuable species. Moreover, the plantations are severely infested by a beehole borer, Zeuzera conferta (Baksha 1996). Replacement of S. apetala preferably by more valuable species that appear at later stages of succession is needed to ensure sustainability of the plantations. With this in view, underplanting trial in the established S. apetala plantations with different mangrove species was initiated. An interim report (Siddiqi et al. 1992) shows success and suitability of underplanting in western coastline
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