The Residual Effect of Pre-Rice Green Manuring on a Succeeding Wheat Crop (Triticum aestivum L.) in the Rice-Wheat Cropping System in Banke, Nepal

Table 7

Soil nitrogen and organic matter content before and after wheat harvest.

Treatments	Before SOM (%)	After SOM (%)	Before N (%)	After N (%)
T 1	1.41^e	0.84^e	0.05^d	0.04^c
T 2	2.32^d	0.897^e	0.067^c	0.05^bc
T 3	2.61^cd	1.877^ab	0.08^a	0.05^c
T 4	3.78^a	2.149^a	0.09^a	0.08^a
T 5	3.97^a	1.286^d	0.08^abc	0.08^a
T 6	3.44^ab	1.649^bc	0.07^bc	0.08^a
T 7	3.15^bc	1.411^cd	0.07^bc	0.07^a
T 8	3.06^bc	1.953^a	0.07^abc	0.07^a
T 9	3.61^a	1.467^cd	0.08^ab	0.07^a
Grand mean	3.04	1.50	0.073	0.066
F-probability	<0.001	<0.001	0.001	<0.001
SEM (±)	0.191	0.087	0.005	0.005
LSD0.05	0.573	0.26	0.014	0.014
CV %	10.9	10	11.4	12.5

SEM = standard error of mean; CV = coefficient of variation. Means followed by difference letters are significantly different among each other on DMRT at a 5% level of significance.