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

Table 5

Effect of different sowing dates and selected cultivars on grain yield (kg·ha⁻¹), biological yield (kg·ha⁻¹), and harvest index of spring mungbean at AFU, Rampur, Chitwan, 2019.

Treatments	Parameters measured
	Grain yield (kg·ha^−1)	Biological yield (kg·ha^−1)	Harvest Index (%)
Date of planting (D)
D1 = February-13	1799^b	5777	31.11^c
D2 = February-28	1903^b	5687	33.45^bc
D3 = March-15	2105^a	5895	35.70^ab
D4 = March-30	2223^a	5962	37.17^a
SEm (±)	72.50	121.40	0.62
LSD (0.05)	177.3	Ns	1.53
CV (%)	4.40	4.60	2.20
Cultivars (V)
V1 = Kalyan	1848^b	5620^c	32.83^a
V2 = Partikshya	1983^ab	5765^bc	34.34^a
V3 = Partigya	2080^a	5903^ab	35.20^a
V4 = Pant-5	2119^a	6032^a	35.07^a
SEM (±)	75.60	106.50	0.95
LSD (0.05)	156.1	219.8	ns
CV (%)	9.20	4.50	6.70
Grand mean	2007	5830	34.36

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.