Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) Growth and Quality as Influenced by Inorganic Fertilizer Rates in Northwestern Ethiopia

Table 3

Growth components of potato as influenced by phosphorus and potassium fertilizer application.

Treatments	Primary stem number	Primary branch number
P 2 O 5 (kg/ha ^−1 )
0	2.75^b	3.96
34.5	3.45^a	4.30
69	3.28^ab	4.06
LSD	0.54	0.66
K 2 O (kg/ha ^−1 )
0	2.82	3.46^b
100	3.31	4.60^a
200	3.26	4.31^a
300	3.24	4.06^ab
LSD	0.63	0.76
CV (%)	20.43	19.06

LSD = least significant difference, means with the same letter within a column are not significantly different, and CV = coefficient of variation.