Yield and Growth Response to Transplanted Aman Rice under Raised Bed over Conventional Cultivation Method
Table 2
Plant biomass with respect to raised bed and conventional method.
Method of fertilizer application
Plant height (cm)
Panicle Length (cm)
Nonbearing tiller (no.m−2)
Sterility (%)
Straw yield (tha−1)
Harvest index
Fertilizer broadcasting in raised bed
87.23a
24.88a
67b
10.16b
5.60a
0.51a
Fertilizer broadcasting in conventional plot
86.38b
24.30b
78a
12.41a
4.92b
0.49b
Coefficient of variation CV (%)
3.25
3.47
4.25
6.14
4.52
5.30
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 letter differ significantly ().
