Influence of Sowing Date on Phenology, Biometric, and Yield of Mungbean (Vigna radiata) Cultivars in Chitwan, Nepal
Table 1
Effect of different sowing dates and selected cultivars on phenological stages of spring mungbean at AFU, Rampur, Chitwan, 2019.
Treatment
Days to 75% phenological stages
Emergence
Trifoliate
Flowering
Date of planting (D)
D1 = February-13
6.58a
20.96a
57.17a
D2 = February-28
5.21b
18.04b
50.42b
D3 = March-15
5.17b
16.08c
42.75c
D4 = March-30
4.13c
12.96d
39.00c
SEm (±)
0.21
0.60
1.82
LSD (0.05)
0.51
1.47
4.45
CV (%)
4.90
4.30
4.70
Cultivars (V)
V1 = Kalyan
5.25ab
16.79b
46.58 b
V2 = Partikshya
5.46a
17.67a
48.50a
V3 = Partigya
5.42a
17.04ab
47.83ab
V4 = Pant-5
4.96b
16.54b
46.42b
SEM (±)
0.18
0.40
0.81
LSD (0.05)
0.38
0.81
1.68
CV (%)
8.60
5.60
4.20
Grand mean
5.27
17.01
47.33
Treatment mean followed by common letters within the same column are not significantly different from each other based on DMRT at a 5% level of significance.