Foliar Spray of Nitrogen Fertilizer on Raised Bed Increases Yield of Transplanted Aman Rice over Conventional Method

Table 3

Effect of tiller production by foliar spray in raised bed and conventional method.

Method of fertilizer application	Tiller (no·m^−2) at days after transplanting
	20	30	40	50	60	70	80	90	100
Foliar spray of fertilizer in raised bed	73b	171b	309b	302b	296b	291b	287b	282b	279b
Fertilizer broadcasting in conventional planting	88b	205a	371a	363a	354a	349a	344a	339a	336a
LSD at 5%	2.07	2.07	9.44	3.34	4.63	13.09	2.07	2.62	2.07
Level of significance	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	**	**

Where ** represents probability of ≤0.01 and n.s. represents probability of >0.05. Values were means of three replicates. In a column figures with same letter do not differ significantly whereas figures with dissimilar letters differ significantly (𝑃≤0.01).