Journal of FARM SCIENCES, Vol 30, No 1 (2017)

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Growth and productivity of Melia dubia under different planting densities in Dharwad conditions

KIRANKUMAR G. KARATANGI, H. Y. PATIL

Abstract


The density experiment was conducted to know the effect on growth and productivity of Melia dubia. Theplantation under different densities (2500 trees/ha with spacing 4×1 m, 1666 trees/ha with spacing 4×1.5 m, 1250 trees/hawith spacing 4×2 m, 1000 trees/ha with spacing 4×2.5 m, 833 trees/ha with spacing 4×3 m, 714 trees/ha with spacing 4×3.5m and 625 trees/ha with spacing 4×4 m) was established under All India Co-ordinated Research Project on Agroforestry,University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad. The four year old existing block was selected for experiment and laid with 7Treatments × 3 Replications = 21 plots in Randomized Block Design (RBD). The planting densities of 833 trees/ha and1000 trees/ha showed optimum performance over the individual tree performance as well as total stand performance. Theplanting density of 2500 trees / ha exhibited significant stand volume compare to other plant density. These results havegreater importance to get maximum productivity under block plantations.

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