Abstract:
In urban agriculture, rooftop gardening is a remarkable part which is
practiced to overcome the food crisis and climate change; if it is not
economically viable on the basis of productivity, then rooftop garden will
not enhance and sustain. So, a pot experiment was conducted during
November 2021 to April 2022 on the rooftop of different height of
buildings and Agroforestry research field at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural
University, Dhaka-1207 to study the productivity of chili (BARI Morich
3). The experiment was laid out in a Completely Randomized Design
with four replications. The treatments of this experiment were T
=
Control (Ground, 0.0 m), T
= Rooftop of three storied building (11.28 m),
T
3
2
= Rooftop of six storied building (21.34 m) and T
= Rooftop of ten
storied building (34.75 m). Results indicated that soil moisture content,
plant height, stem diameter, number of (leaf, branch and fruit), fresh and
dry weight of plant, single fruit (weight, length and diameter), fresh and
dry weight of yield per plant were significantly decreased with the
increased of building height (T
ii
1
>T
2
>T
3
>T
4
4
) and air temperature, soil
temperature and light intensity were significantly increased with the
increased of building height (T
4
> T
3
> T
2
> T
). As gradually increased the
height of building rooftop, sequentially decreased the growth, yield and
yield contributing characteristics of chili plant. Although ground
performed the best productivity, up to rooftop of three storied building
can be selected as an appropriate height for chili (BARI Morich-3)
cultivation to increase the rooftop gardening.
Description:
A Thesis
Submitted to the Faculty of Agriculture
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka
in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE
IN
AGROFORESTRY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
