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

Table 4

Effect of leaf area index by foliar spray in raised bed and conventional method.

Method of fertilizer application	LAI at different DAT
	20	40	60	80	100
Foliar spray of fertilizer in raised bed	0.175b	2.38b	5.32	5.05	3.83a
Fertilizer broadcasting in conventional planting	0.38a	2.47a	4.92	4.97	3.78b
LSD at 5%	0.001	0.001	0.31	0.04	0.00
Level of significance	**	**	n.s.	n.s.	*

Where *, **, and n.s. represent probability of ≤0.001, ≤0.01, and >0.05, respectively. 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).