Agriculture & Food Security

Table 8 Least square means for biomass production rate (kg ha⁻¹ day⁻¹) and forage dry matter yield at forage harvest of five vetch species grown at Holetta and Ginchi

From: Morpho-agronomic performance of vetch species and their accessions grown under nitosol and vertisol conditions in the central highlands of Ethiopia

Species	Biomass production rate^♦		Forage DM yield^♦
Species	Holetta	Ginchi	Holetta	Ginchi
Vicia sativa	47.3^ab	63.2^a	5.05^a	6.79^a
Vicia villosa	50.3^a	50.6^a	5.84^a	7.62^a
Vicia narbonensis	47.8^ab	61.7^a	1.39^b	1.99^b
Vicia dasycarpa	29.3^bc	40.7^ab	5.46^a	6.89^a
Vicia atropurpurea	12.8^c	15.4^b	5.09^a	7.14^a
Mean	37.5	46.3	4.56	6.09
CV (%)	16.44	15.79	21.12	21.14
R ²	0.25	0.21	0.84	0.74

Means followed by a common superscript letters within a column are not significantly different from each other at P < 0.05
♦ = Log transformation

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