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

Table 7

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

Method of fertilizer application	Weed vegetation
	Weed vegetation population (no·m^−2)	Dry biomass (kg ha^−1)
Foliar spray of fertilizer in raised bed	115b	107.8b
Fertilizer broadcasting in conventional planting	380a	337a
LSD at 5%	4.72	2.75
Level of significance	**	**

Where ** represents probability of ≤0.01. 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).