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A field experiment was conducted at the Hill Agricultural Research Station, Khagrachari
to find out a suitable planting material and mulch material for turmeric production in the
hill slope of Chittagong Hill Tracts. Nine treatment combinations comprising 3 levels of
planting material (mother rhizome, primary finger and secondary finger) and 3 levels of
mulching (rice straw, sungrass and non-mulched) were compared. Mother rhizome
showed better yield performance. Sungrass appeared the best mulching material for
producing higher turmeric yield. Mother rhizome coupled with sungrass mulching gave
significantly higher yields (387.6 g clump-1 and 29.4 t ha-1) of turmeric in hilly region
of Bangladesh.
