Yield and Growth Response to Transplanted Aman Rice under Raised Bed over Conventional Cultivation Method

Table 3

Effect of tiller production in both raised bed and conventional method.

Method of fertilizer application	Tiller (no.m^−2) at days after transplanting
	20	30	40	50	60	70	80	90	100
Fertilizer broadcasting in raised bed	235a	543a	588a	626a	514a	502a	595a	489a	484a
Fertilizer broadcasting in conventional plot	196a	367a	441a	522b	490b	470b	462b	450b	445b
Coefficient of variation CV (%)	6.58	6.95	7.10	4.55	5.37	6.45	7.25	6.48	5.17
Level of significance	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	**	*	**	**	**	**

Where n.s. * and **represent probability of >0.05, ≤0.05, 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 letter differ significantly (𝑃≤0.01).