Land distribution, composition and abundance of trees in home garden of Bangladesh
Land distribution, composition and abundance of trees in home garden of Bangladesh
Kabir Dihider Shahriar, Mahmood Hossain and Ripon Kumar Debnath
ABSTRACT
The land distribution, composition and inventory of timber, fruit and multiple purpose tree species were studied in 65 households of eight villages of four Thanas in four different agro-ecological zones in Bangladesh. Among the eight villages 37,674, trees were counted including 98 species of 33 families. The family Leguminosae dominated with 17 species followed by Moraceae 7, Palmaceae 6, Myrtaceae 6, Rutaceae 5, Meliaceae 4, Anonaceae 3 and rest are in other families. According to the size of household, large farmers have the highest number of trees (177.36 trees/ household) in all the study areas while the landless farmers having small homestead (51.81 trees/household). Among the four agro-ecological zones, Badhadia village of Thana Sonagazi possessed the highest number (186.17) of trees whereas the lowest number (24.4) of trees per household was found in Charpar village of Thana Jamalpur. Among the timber trees akasmoni (Acacia auriculiformis) and mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) were the dominant (1987and1785) species in the study areas. Betel nut, (Areca catechu), mango (Mangifera indica), coconut (Cocos nucifera), jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus), guava (Psidium guajava), jam (Syzygium cumini), ber (Zizyphus mauritiana) were the common fruit tree species. Among all the four study areas Thana Sonagazi being coastal area possessed the highest number of betel nut and coconut trees whereas Thana Chandina was dominated by tal (Borassus flabellifer) species.
Key word: Home garden, Community Forestry, Social Forestry
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March 2005
Vol. 55, Iss. 1
