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

Table 5

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

Method of fertilizer application	Dry matter production (g m^−2) at different days after transplanting (DAT)
	20	30	40	50	60	70	80	90	100
Foliar spray of fertilizer in raised bed	36b	90b	242b	383a	576b	802b	913b	1094b	1198b
Fertilizer broadcasting in conventional planting	64a	127a	251a	350b	621a	851a	1062a	1190a	1260a
LSD at 5%	2.07	2.07	2.07	4.98	19.63	2.07	15.18	5.93	4.98
Level of significance	**	**	**	**	*	**	**	**	**

Where * and ** represent probability of ≤0.001 and ≤0.01, 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).