Research Article
Herbage Yield and Nutritive Value of Selected Grasses in Subhumid Agroecological Environments in Ethiopia
Table 3
Plant height (cm) (LS means) of grass cultivars was tested for three years at two locations.
| | Cultivars | Location | Year | Combined analysis | | Bishoftu | Bako | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
| | B. mutica (var. DZF-483) | 116.2a | 127.7a | 136a | 123a | 106.8a | 121.9a | | B. brizantha (DZF-13379) | 96.5b | 104.3b | 94.8c | 103.2b | 103.2a | 100.4ab | | Rhodes grass (var. Massaba) | 98.2b | 99.8bc | 111b | 97.2b | 88.8b | 99.0ab | | B. decumbens (DZF-10871) | 91.1bc | 93.7c | 89.8cd | 89.8cd | 86.3b | 92.4c | | Desho grass (var. Kindu Kosha) | 85.8cd | 79.4d | 82.7cd | 79.8c | 85.3b | 82.4d | | B. humidicola (DZF-9222) | 79.2d | 70.4e | 77.5d | 79.8c | 67.2c | 74.8e | | Mean | 94.5 | 95.9 | 98.63 | 95.47 | 89.6 | 94.63 | | SEM | 0.87 | 0.87 | 3.34 | 3.34 | 3.34 | 6.02 | | -level | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
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