Treatments | Total biomass yield (kg ha−1) | |||||||
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Babillae | Fedis | Haramaya | Hirna | |||||
Non inoculated | Inoculated | Non inoculated | Inoculated | Non inoculated | Inoculated | Non inoculated | Inoculated | |
Control | 2,055.6c | 1,787.0c | 2,077.0b | 3,133.3b | 4,819.8b | 5,260.1a | 5,051.3b | 5,685.2b |
20 kg N ha−1 | 2,277.8bc | 2,148.1bc | 4,018.5a | 4,087.0a | 4,970.1b | 6,172.2a | 6,248.8a | 8,638.9a |
40 kg N ha−1 | 2,631.5b | 2,498.1b | 4,333.3a | 4,249.2a | 5,732.4ab | 6,225.0a | 6,970.4a | 7,111.1ab |
60 kg N ha−1 | 3,131.5a | 3,375.4a | 4,055.6a | 4,277.8a | 6,388.9a | 6,406.9a | 6,574.1a | 7,296.3ab |
80 kg N ha−1 | 3,082.4a | 3,421.4a | 4,388.9a | 4,462.2a | 6,452.8a | 6,435.2a | 6,990.7a | 6,537.0ab |
100 kg N ha−1 | 3,260.8a | 3,648.1a | 4,374.1a | 4,740.7a | 6,474.1a | 6,444.4a | 7,011.6a | 8,000.0ab |
Mean | 2,739.92 | 2,813.05 | 3,874.7 | 4,158.4 | 5,806.3 | 6,157.3 | 6,468.5 | 7,211.4 |
F-value | 30.29*** | 37.74*** | 22.99*** | 10.28*** | 6.47** | 2.56Â ns | 10.33*** | 4.10* |
LSD | 429.05 | 596.71 | 886.73 | 814.16 | 1417.2 | 1347.5 | 1142.8 | 2450.2 |
CV (%) | 5.71 | 7.73 | 8.34 | 7.14 | 8.90 | 7.98 | 6.44 | 12.39 |