Evaluation of Grain/Seed Yield and Yield Components of Finger Millet and Three Vetch Species Intercropped at Various Seeding Ratios at Bako, Ethiopia

Table 2

Main effects and interaction effect of vetch species and seeding ratio on plant height, heads per plant, fingers per head, and leaf to stem ratio of finger millet.

Factors	Plant height (cm)	Heads per plant	Fingers per head
Vetch species
Vspps1	84.28^b	3.14^c	6.11^b
Vspps2	86.09^a	4.58^a	7.00^a
Vspps3	84.86^b	3.75^b	5.44^c
Sole finger millet mean(T1)	86.16	4.09	6.00
value	0.0016	0.0001	0.0003
Seeding ratios
SR1	82.29^c	3.30^c	5.56^b
SR2	85.48^b	3.93^b	6.11^b
SR3	87.45^a	4.24^a	6.89^a
value	0.0001	0.0001	0.0012
Intercrops
Vspps1SR1(T5)	81.07^e	2.18^f	6.33^cd
Vspps1SR2(T6)	84.61^c	3.46^e	6.67^b
Vspps1SR3(T7)	86.16^b	3.78^d	6.33^bc
Vspps2SR1(T8)	82.97^d	4.12^c	6.33^bc
Vspps2SR2(T9)	85.89^bc	4.63^b	6.67^b
Vspps2SR3(T10)	89.39^a	4.89^a	8.00^a
Vspps3SR1(T11)	82.85^d	3.50^e	5.00^d
Vspps3SR2(T12)	85.92^bc	3.69^d	5.08^cd
Vspps3SR3(T13)	86.81^b	4.06^c	6.33^bc
Mean	85.08	3.82	6.19
SEM	0.51	0.059	0.36
value	0001	0001	0004
Cv (%)	1.03	2.67	10.02

^a-bMeans with different letters in a column are significantly different ( < 0.05. Cm = centimeter, Vspps = vetch species, SR = seeding ratio, SEM = standard error of mean, CV = coefficient of variance, .Vspps1 = vetch species 1 (Vicia sativa), Vspps 2 = vetch species 2 (Vicia villosa), and Vspps 3 = vetch species 3 (Vicia atropurpurea).