Bangladesh poses important challenges to promote sustainable agricultural development in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). The CHT is an area of over 10% of countrys total area. Jhum or Shifting cultivation is the predominant crop production system in the hill districts. The productivity of the Jhum system was declined significantly. The reasons for poverty of the farming communities in CHT could be attributed to low productivity of hill soils and farmers limited access to land. With this boom in urgently need for alternative land use practices in the hill. Very little research work and...