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

Table 6

Effect of crop growth rate by foliar spray in raised bed and conventional method.

Method of fertilizer application	Crop growth rate (g m^−2 day^−1) at different days after transplanting (DAT)
	20–30	30–40	40–50	50–60	60–70	70–80	80–90	90–100
Foliar spray of fertilizer in raised bed	5.4b	15.2a	14.1a	19.3b	22.6	11.1b	18.1a	10.4a
Fertilizer broadcasting in conventional planting	6.3a	12.4b	9.9b	27.1a	23	21.1a	12.8b	7b
LSD at 5%	0.46	0.41	0.13	0.29	1.87	0.13	1.03	1.00
Level of significance	*	**	**	**	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).