Prospect of Intercropping Chickpea in Autumn Planted Sugarcane in Barind Tract of Bangladesh - Abstract
Intercrop chickpea with sugarcane is well adopted in water deficit barind region in Bangladesh where ground water table is lowering by affecting with climate change. Intercropping technology is popular and challenges to make it more benefit to the incumbent. A Drought tolerant sugarcane variety with the high water use efficient chickpea is combined for drought prone barind region. Different varietal comparison Isd 32 is better in respect of yield 64.70 t ha-1 for barind region and intercropping with chickpea is 85.62 t ha-1and only chickpea yield 0.79 t ha-1 is alarming. Considering the economic benefit intercropping chickpea with sugarcane gives 3.5 times compare to solely cultivated chickpea. Among the chickpea cultivars BARI chickpea is well adopted for barind region.