Boosting Tef (Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter)) Yield through the Use of Different Inter-Row Spacing and Seeding Rates

Table 3

The main effect of row spacing and seed rate on plant height, number of total tillers, and effective tillers per plant in tef.

Factors	Plant height (cm)	Number of tillers per plant	Number of effective tiller per plant
Row spacing (cm)
15	91.76^a	4.88^c	4.13^c
20	88.36^b	5.95^b	4.81^b
25	85.09^c	7.31^a	6.10^a
30	81.89^d	7.74^a	6.24^a
LSD (0.05)	2.22	0.60	0.42
Seed rates (kg ha^−1)
2.5	81.57^c	8.37^a	7.16^a
5	84.18^b	7.10^b	5.83^b
7.5	86.51^b	6.20^c	4.98^c
10	89.8^a	5.59^cd	4.54^cd
12.5	91.81^a	5.13^d	4.00^d
LSD (0.05)	2.48	0.66	0.47
CV (%)	3.5	12.4	10.6

Means followed by the same letter within a column are not significantly different at a 5% probability level.