Studies on growth and floss yield of Ceiba pentandra (L) Gaertn stands in sub humid tropics

A field experiment was conducted at Indira Gandhi Agricultural University, Raipur Chattisgarh India to evaluate the growth and floss yield of Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn. Stands in sub humid tropics. The experiment consisted of 24 treatments combination of three tree spacing treatments (4×4 m, 4×6 m and 4×8 x 4) , two pruning regimes . The experiment was laid out in a randomized block design and it was replicated four times. After 9 years, Growth parameter of Ceiba tree stands revealed that the tree height, diameter at breast height, crown width and length, Number of pod tree-1, Pod length, seed and floss yield decreased numerically from the lower tree density to higher density. The results suggested that C. pentandra should be planted either at a wider spacing (4×8 m) or silvicultural (lopping, pruning) practices under a narrow tree spacing (4×4 m) should be adopted to obtain higher yields of wheat in an agri-silvicultural system.

Author(s): Anil Gawali

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