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

Table 4

Effects of location, spacing, and stage of flowering on CP, NDF, ADL, and ME content of sweet lupine forage.

Factor	Chemical composition on DM basis
	CP (%)	NDF (%)	ADL (%)	ME (MJ/kg)
Variety (V)
Vitabor	22.40	47.79	5.45	9.26
Sanabor	21.85	47.99	5.44	9.23
value	0.0602	0.6652	0.9533	0.4703
SE (±)	0.20	0.31	0.05	0.03
Location (L)
U. Gana	23.11^a	47.04^b	5.42	9.17^b
Jewe	21.15^b	48.74^a	5.46	9.31^a
value	<0.0001	0.0003	0.6336	0.0003
SE (±)	0.20	1.56	0.05	0.02
Spacing (S)
30 × 7	20.93^b	48.72	5.61^a	9.21
40 × 7	21.61^b	48.26	5.60^a	9.22
30 × 15	21.92^b	48.28	5.43^ab	9.25
40 × 15	21.60^b	48.35	5.46^a	9.29
30 × 20	23.02^a	47.05	5.37^ab	9.24
40 × 20	23.67^a	46.69	5.17^b	9.25
value	<0.0001	0.0610	0.0327	0.8632
SE (±)	0.35	0.55	0.10	0.04
Stage of flowering (SF)
50%	23.03^a	47.86	5.21^b	9.04^b
100%	21.22^b	47.92	5.67^a	9.44^a
value	<0.0001	0.8935	<0.0001	<.0001
SE (±)	0.20	0.31	0.05	0.02
Interaction	NS	NS	NS	NS
LSD	1.00	1.54	0.28	0.07
CV%	7.92	5.62	9.12	2.43

a-b in a column with different superscripts differ (); U. Gana = Upper Gana; DM = dry matter; CP = crude protein; NDF = neutral detergent fiber; ADL = acid detergent lignin; ME = metabolizable energy; SE = standard error; LSD = least significant difference; CV = coefficient of variation; NS = nonsignificant.