Morphological Characters, Yield, and Chemical Composition Potentials of Desho Grass (Pennisetum glaucifolium H.) Intercropped with Vetch Species in the Highlands of Ethiopia

Table 2

Total dry matter yield of sole desho and intercropped vetch species.

Variables		Parameters (dry matter yield ton/hectare)
HD	Forage species	DMY of desho	DMY vetch	TDMY
90	Sole desho (Var-Kulumsa)	12.2^d	—	12.2^i
	Desho+V. sativa	8.78^f	6.61^e	15.38^h
	Desho+V. dayscarpa (Var-Lana)	8.034^g	13.6^d	21.64^f
	Desho+V. villosa (Var-Gebisa)	10.24^e	14.6^c	24.84^e
	Desho+V. villosa (Var-Lalisa)	12.25^d	15.53^b	27.8^d
120	Sole desho (Var-Kulumsa)	15.5^c	—	15.5^h
	Desho+V. sativa	10.65^e	6.6^e	17.28^g
	Desho+V. dayscarpa (Var-Lana)	15.3^c	14.01^d	29.28^c
	Desho+V. villosa (Var-Lalisa))	16.2^b	15.25^b	31.45^b
	Desho+V. villosa (Var-Gebisa))	18.06^a	17.01^a	35.73^a
	Overall mean	12.72	12.91	22.89
	SEM	0.598	0.785	1.334
	SL
	CV	2.156	2.41	1.86
	R^2	0.995	0.995	0.997

TRT = Treatment, DMY = dry matter yield, TDMY = total dry matter yield ton per hectare, SEM = standard error of mean, CV = coefficient of variation, SL = significant level, = significant at 0.001; means within column followed by the same letters are not significantly different R² = coefficient of determination.