Effect of Plant Spacing on Yield and Yield Components of Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) in Shewarobit, Central Ethiopia

Table 1

Main effect of intrarow spacing on yield and yield components of tomato at Shewarobit

		MFY (kg ha^−1)	UMFY (kg ha^−1)	NMF	NUMF	FD (cm)	No. branch	DTF (days)
Intra‐row spacing
20 cm		6992^a	756.56	155525	138.1	4.78^b	7.67	44.08
30 cm		4477^b	858.80	110747	148.8	5.39^a	8.17	44.33
40 cm		4419^b	892.31	98239	122.8	5.05^ab	7.00	44.33
Sig. level			ns	ns	ns		ns	ns
CV (%)		49	51	54	54	10.8	33.8	9.4
Inter‐row spacing
60 cm		7674^a	3961.0^a	207529^a	198.3^a	4.5189^c	44.8	7.1
80 cm		5840^ab	3701.5^ab	122558^ab	153.2^ab	4.8733^bc	44.7	6.6
100 cm		3848^b	2024.9^b	83003^b	103.7^b	5.7067^a	43.9	7
120 cm		3821^b	1749.4^b	72924^b	91.1^b	5.0589^b	43.7	6.9
Sign. level							ns	ns
CV (%)		49	51	54	54	10.8	9.4	7.8

Means in columns with the same letter(s) in each treatment are not significantly different, UMF: unmarketable fruit yield; NMF: number of marketable fruit; NUMF: number of unmarketable fruit yield; FD: fruit diameter; No. branch: number of primary branches; PH = plant height; FL = fruit length; DTF: days to first flowering.