Influence of Sowing Date on Phenology, Biometric, and Yield of Mungbean (Vigna radiata) Cultivars in Chitwan, Nepal

Table 2

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
	Pod formation	Physiological maturity	Harvest maturity
D1 = February-13	63.25^a	68.33^a	76.58^a
D2 = February-28	57.83^b	62.67^b	69.83^b
D3 = March-15	49.58^c	57.67^c	64.33^c
D4 = March-30	45.83^c	53.08^c	60.42^d
SEm (±)	1.86	1.91	1.49
LSD (0.05)	4.55	4.68	3.63
CV (%)	4.20	3.90	2.70
Cultivars (V)
V1 = Kalyan	53.33^b	60.08^a	67.42^a
V2 = Partikshya	55.75^a	61.67^a	69.08^a
V3 = Partigya	54.25^ab	60.58^a	68.17^a
V4 = Pant-5	53.17^b	59.42^a	66.50^a
SEM (±)	0.95	1.19	1.56
LSD (0.05)	1.95	Ns	ns
CV (%)	4.30	4.80	5.70
Grand mean	54.13	60.44	67.79

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.