Research Article

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

Table 9

Water use efficiency in both raised bed and conventional method.

Method of fertilizer applicationWater use efficiency savings by bed planting of rice over conventional method
Water use efficiency for grain production
(kg ha−1 cm−1)
Water use efficiency for biomass production
(kg ha−1 cm−1)

Fertilizer broadcasting in raised bed51a114a
Fertilizer broadcasting in conventional plot29b69b
Coefficient of variation CV (%)5.123.99
Level of significance ** *

Where * and **represent probability of ≤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 . 0 1 ).