Yield and Nutritional Quality of Sweet Lupine (Lupinus angustifolius) Grown in Midaltitudes of Lemo District, Hadiya Zone, Southern Ethiopia

Table 2

Effects of location, spacing, and stage of flowering on plant height (cm), green forage yield (t/ha), and forage dry matter yield (t/ha).

Location (L)	Spacing (S)	Variety (V)	PH (cm)	GFY (t/ha)	DMY (t/ha)
		Vitabor	69.79	23.23	3.41
		Sanabor	69.17	26.94	3.48
		value	0.6121	0.0803	0.7616
		SE (±)	0.85	1.19	0.16
Upper Gana	30 × 7		84.51^a	39.58^a	4.84^a
	40 × 7		78.93^ab	32.16^ab	3.99^abcd
	30 × 15		71.31^bcde	17.86^e	3.10^bcde
	40 × 15		66.61^defg	21.55^cde	2.82^de
	30 × 20		74.68^bcd	31.11^bc	4.10^abc
	40 × 20		77.16^abc	33.04^ab	4.30^ab
Jewe	30 × 7		68.16^def	22.30^cde	3.28^bcde
	40 × 7		69.25^cde	26.79^bcd	4.01^abcd
	30 × 15		63.60^efg	20.88^cde	2.98^cde
	40 × 15		60.32^fg	19.98^de	2.92^cde
	30 × 20		59.08^g	17.33^e	2.53^e
	40 × 20		60.18^fg	18.45^de	2.54^e
value			0.031	0.0038	0.0321
SE (±)			3.16	2.84	0.44
Location (L)	Stage of flowering (SF)
Upper Gana	50%		65.34^b	21.07^b	2.86^ab
	100%		85.73^a	37.37^a	4.85^a
Jewe	50%		58.96^c	17.55^c	2.59^c
	100%		67.90^b	24.35^b	3.49^b
value			<0.0001	0.0062	0.0190
SE (±)			1.19	1.64	0.22
LSD			2.39	3.33	0.45
CV%			10.35	30.69	30.47

a–g in a column with different superscripts differ (); PH = plant height at herbage harvest; GFY = green forage yield; DMY = dry matter yield; SE = standard error; LSD = least significant difference; CV = coefficient of variation.