Nutritional Content Analysis of Crop Residues in Three Agroecologies in East Gojjam Zone

Table 2

Average crop residue yield (in tons) per household in the study areas.

Crop types	Altitudes				value
	Highland	Midland	Lowland	Average
Teff	0.02 ± 0.50^a	2.08 ± 0.42^b	1.22 ± 0.12^c	1.11	<0.001
Wheat	0.81 ± 0.52^a	0.85 ± 0.89^a	3.22 ± 0.42^b	1.63	<0.001
Barley	0.42 ± 0.10^a	0.02 ± 0.23^b	0.03 ± 0.61^c	0.22	0.020
Maize	0.03 ± 0.17^a	0.92 ± 0.32^b	2.28 ± 0.22^c	1.07	<0.001
Oats	0.00 ± 0.00^a	0.07 ± 0.90^a	0.00 ± 0.00^a	0.02	0.100
Sorghum	0.00 ± 0.00^a	0.00 ± 0.00^a	0.13 ± 0.63^b	0.04	0.045
Potato	0.49 ± 0.34^a	0.01 ± 0.50^b	0.00 ± 0.00^b	0.17	0.034
Linseed	0.01 ± 0.02^a	0.00 ± 0.00^a	0.00 ± 0.00^a	0.00	0.081
Niger seed	0.00 ± 0.00^a	0.01 ± 0.40^a	0.00 ± 0.00^a	0.00	0.232
Vetch	0.02 ± 0.28^a	0.23 ± 0.33^b	0.01 ± 0.48^a	0.09	0.030
Field pea	0.12 ± 0.69^a	0.06 ± 0.45^a	0.04 ± 0.46^a	0.07	0.445
Faba bean	0.03 ± 0.56^a	0.02 ± 0.20^a	0.02 ± 0.30^a	0.02	0.249
Chick pea	0.01 ± 0.35^a	0.02 ± 0.15^a	0.01 ± 0.31^a	0.01	0.904
Total	1.94	4.47	6.95	4.45

The means in the same row that have different superscript letters differ considerably ().