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

Table 4

Effect of different sowing dates and selected cultivars on yield attributing characteristics of spring mungbean at AFU, Rampur, Chitwan, 2019.

Parameters	Yield attributing characters
	Plants plot^−1	Clusters plant^−1	Pods plant^−1	Pod length (cm)	Seeds pod^−1	1000-Seed wt (g)	Shelling (%)
Date of planting (D)
D1 = February 13	194^a	7.05^b	18.72^c	8.83^b	9.33^b	43.03^b	53.41^b
D2 = February 28	195^a	9.34^a	18.85^bc	8.93^b	9.55^ab	44.21^ab	54.36^ab
D3 = March 15	193.5^a	9.62^a	19.90^ab	9.30^a	9.81^a	45.51^a	55.56^a
D4 = March 30	194^a	9.69^a	20.11^a	9.16^ab	9.97^a	46.59^a	54.90^a
SEM (±)	0.94	0.53	0.46	0.14	0.19	0.97	0.59
LSD (0.05)	ns	1.33	1.13	0.33	0.44	2.38	1.44
CV (%)	0.60	7.30	2.90	1.80	2.30	2.70	1.30
Cultivars (V)
V1 = Kalyan	241666^a	8.76	19.01	8.82^b	9.36^b	43.70	54.96
V2 = Partikshya	242291^a	8.81	19.20	8.90^b	9.48^b	45.80	54.59
V3 = Partigya	244375^a	8.95	19.33	9.54^a	10.04^ab	44.58	54.65
V4 = Pant-5	243125^a	9.19	20.04	8.95^b	9.77^a	45.26	54.03
SEM (±)	1211.80^a	0.29	0.50	0.22	0.25	1.06	0.79
LSD (0.05)	ns	ns	Ns	0.46	0.51	ns	ns
CV (%)	1.20	7.90	6.30	6.10	6.20	5.80	3.50
Grand mean	242864.58	8.93	19.40	9.06	9.66	44.83	54.56

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.