Effect of Spacing and Different Levels of Phosphorus on Growth and Yield of Malepatan-1 Variety of Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (Linn.) Walp.) in Dang District, Nepal

Table 6

Effect of phosphorus and spacing on fresh pod yield per plot.

Treatment	Fresh pod yield (t/ha)
	70 DAS	85 DAS	100 DAS
Spacing (cm)
15 × 30	0.24^a	0.45^a	0.40^ab
30 × 30	0.118^b	0.37^a	0.44^a
45 × 30	0.123^b	0.36^a	0.36^b
LSD	0.063	—	—
CV (%); F test	37.80; 0.019	43.50; NS	15.98; NS
Phosphorus (kg/ha)
20	0.08^a	0.35^a	0.40^ab
40	0.21^a	0.407^a	0.37^b
60	0.19^a	0.43^a	0.43^a
LSD	—	—	—
CV (%)	84.21	21.89	15.98
F test	NS	NS	NS
Interaction	0.026	NS	NS
Grand mean	0.162	0.398	0.405

Treatments means followed by the same letter(s) within the column are nonsignificantly different among each other at 5% level of significance. LSD, least significant difference; CV, coefficient of variation; NS, nonsignificant. Source: R Core Team [17]. Significant at the 0.05 level.