Soil Properties, Crop Yield, and Economic Return in Response to Lime Application on Acidic Nitisols of Southern Highlands of Ethiopia
Table 5
Yield and yield components of barley as affected by lime and year combined over 2 years on Nitisols in southern Ethiopia.
Treatments
Plant height (cm)
Tillers per plant (no.)
Spike length (cm)
Total biomass (kg/ha)
Grain yield (kg/ha)
Straw yield (kg/ha)
HI (%)
TGW (g)
Year
2020
101.19
7.0a
6.8b
14224b
3476b
10748b
24.4
39.4b
2021
83.17
1.4b
7.7a
17486a
4138a
13348a
23.7
45.8a
Significance level
NS
LSD (0.05)
6.5
0.47
0.52
3236
558
2494
1.3
10.7
Lime rate (t·ha−1)
Control
84.5b
3.6b
6.7
13123c
3326b
9797c
25.3ab
50.2
2.74
87.8ab
4.2ab
7.1
15312ab
3564ab
11749ab
23.3ab
53.6
4.11
95ab
3.6b
7.1
14886b
4061ab
10825b
27.3a
54.1
5.54
97ab
4.1ab
7.4
19199a
4328a
14872a
22.5c
51.5
6.85
90ab
5.4a
7.1
16015ab
3761ab
12254ab
23.5ab
54.3
8.22
98.8a
4.5ab
8.0
16595ab
3802ab
12793ab
22.9b
51.9
Significance level
NS
NS
LSD (0.05)
12.8
1.4
1.4
4227
881
3492
5.1
10.6
CV (%)
7.6
21.1
11.1
19.6
12.7
21.1
11.7
12.2
Note. Significant at ≤ 0.05, ≤ 0.01, and ≤ 0.001; NS: not significant. Within a column, means followed by different letters are significantly different at < 0.05. LSD: least significant difference; CV: coefficient of variation.
