Response of Two Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) Varieties to Rates of Blended Fertilizer and Row Spacing at Tselemti District, Northern Ethiopia

Table 4

Chickpea biomass yield, grain yield, straw yield, hundred-seed weight, and harvest index as influenced by main effect of interrow spacing, variety, and interaction effect of blended fertilizer rates and varieties.

Treatments	BY; (Kg/ha)	GY; (Kg/ha)	SY; (Kg/ha)	HSW; (g/ha)	HI; (%)
Inter row spacing (c.m)
20c.m	3496	1970	1629	24.08	49.37
30c.m	3306	1713	1524	24.08	51.17
40c.m	3373	1796	1500	23.42	53.25
LSD(0.05)	ns	ns	ns	ns	1.6^∗∗
CV (%)	14	7.6	10.7	4.5	14.5
Varieties
Mariye	3450	1934	1418	22.78	54
Arerti	3333	1719	1684	24.94	48
LSD(0.05)	ns	11.5^∗∗	117.1^∗∗	0.516^∗∗	3.5^∗∗
F and V
0,V1	3348	1882	1342	22.44	54
50,V1	3194	1795	1398	22.56	56
100,V1	3661	2037	1496	23.11	54
150,V1	3599	2022	1436	23.00	54
0,V2	3358	1698	1714	25.44	51
50,V2	3258	1675	1687	24.67	47
100,V2	3383	1647	1603	24.56	45
150,V2	3332	1855	1733	25.11	51
LSD(0.05)	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns

BY: biomass yield; GY: grain yield; SY: straw yield; HI: harvest index; HSW: hundred-seed weight; CV: coefficient of variation; V1: Mariye (D), V2: Arerti (K); F: fertilizer; V: variety.