Yield and Nutritional Quality of Sweet Lupine (Lupinus angustifolius) Grown in Midaltitudes of Lemo District, Hadiya Zone, Southern Ethiopia

Table 7

Effects of location, variety, and spacing on crude protein, IVOMD and metabolizable energy content of sweet lupine seed.

Factor	Chemical composition on DM basis
	CP (%)	IVOMD (%)	ME (MJ/kg)
Variety
Vitabor	23.63	79.23	11.91
Sanabor	23.46	79.38	11.93
value	0.7713	0.7364	0.6499
SE (±)	0.42	0.23	0.02
Location
U. Gana	29.11^a	80.49^a	11.94
Jewe	17.98^b	78.16^b	11.90
value	<0.0001	<0.0001	0.3045
SE (±)	1.45	0.23	0.02
Spacing
30 × 7	22.30	78.82	11.86
40 × 7	23.26	79.29	11.90
30 × 15	23.99	79.64	11.94
40 × 15	23.37	79.56	11.96
30 × 20	24.19	79.17	11.89
40 × 20	24.15	79.46	11.94
value	0.4212	0.7376	0.3870
SE (±)	0.72	0.40	0.04
Interaction	NS	NS	NS
LSD	1.19	0.66	0.06
CV%	10.65	1.76	1.18

a-b in a column with different superscripts differ (); U. Gana = Upper Gana; CP = crude protein; IVOMD = in vitro organic matter digestibility; ME (MJ/kg) = metabolizable energy in mega joules per kilogram; DM = dry matter; SE = standard error; LSD = least significant difference; CV = coefficient of variation; NS = nonsignificant.