Integrated Use of Cattle Manure and NPS Fertilizer to Improve the Yield of Grain Amaranth (Amaranthus caudatus L.) in Southwest Ethiopia

Table 4

The effect of treatments on the yield components.

		Panicle length (cm)	Number of panicles plant^−1	1000 seed weight (g)	Grain yield (kg)	Above ground dry biomass (kg)	Harvest index
Site
Guraferda		52.65^c	8.048^b	32.22^a	1254.76^a	4790.72^a	25.75^a
Menitgoldiya		54.18^b	4.99^c	23.79^c	572.62^b	2423.05^b	23.99^b
Menitshasha		78.55^a	13.84^a	24.72^b	506.88^c	2355.45^b	20.70^c
LSD (0.05)		6.57	0.94	0.82	65.04	183.72	0.80
Treatments
NPS (kg ha^−1)	Cattle manure (t·ha^−1)
0	0	42.56^e	4.65^f	21.12^h	363.8^g	3248.9^d	14.83^j
	4	47.16^de	5.40^ef	22.01^g	586.3^f	2853.9^ef	19.85^i
	8	46.52^de	4.36^f	24.42^g	659.0^ef	2982.1^de	21.11^hi
	12	45.80^e	6.04^ef	25.70^fg	687.0^ef	3010.2^de	22.01^gh
20	0	54.49^cde	5.67^ef	25.62^fg	707.3^def	3030.4^de	22.62^bc
	4	50.59^cde	7.01^de	26.74^def	742.5^de	3054.5^de	23.84^cdefg
	8	63.60^bc	7.20^de	28.51^bcd	745.6^de	3057.6^de	23.63^defg
	12	73.98^ab	11.20^c	29.21^abc	852.1^cd	3375.2^cd	24.75^bcdef
40	0	55.45^cde	5.71^ef	26.75^def	682.0^ef	2916.2^e	22.76^efgh
	4	61.095^bcd	9.04^cd	26.97^def	786.0^de	3098.1^de	24.83^bcde
	8	75.98^ab	6.49^ef	28.13^cd	804.1^cde	3116.2^de	25.30^bcd
	12	73.25^ab	9.05^cd	28.07^cde	850.3^cd	3162.3^de	26.47^b
60	0	47.76^de	6.93^de	26.17^efg	713.3^def	3025.4^de	22.80^efgh
	4	83.43^a	15.65^b	30.42^a	946.4^bc	3636.2^bc	25.93^bc
	8	83.62^a	17.78^b	30.08^ab	1058.6^b	4037.3^b	26.02^b
	12	83.42^a	21.18^a	30.62^a	1264.4^a	4215.4^a	28.91^a
LSD (5%)		15.17	2.18	1.90	150.2	424.29	2.14
CV (%)		26.23	25.99	7.56	20.62	14.21	9.74

Means followed by the same letter within a column are not significantly different at level of significance.