Abstract            Volume:12  Issue-4  Year-2024         Original Research Articles

Online ISSN : 2347 - 3215 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcret@gmail.com

Small pod hot Pepper is a seasonal plant of the family Solanaceae. It is grown as an annual crop and produced for its fruits. It is one of the most important vegetable crops for fresh consumption, for processing and as a spice (for making stew). A field experiment was conducted at Haro Sabu Agricultural Research Center research of main station for two consecutive years in Kellem Wollega zone, Western Ethiopia, during the 2021 and 2022/3 main cropping season with objective of evaluating effects of different inter and intra row spacing on yield and yield components of small pod hot pepper production in Kellem Wollega zone. The combination Four inter row spacing (50cm, 60cm, 70cm and 80cm) and three intra row spacing (20cm, 30cm and 40cm) were used as experimental materials with Malka Dera small pod hot pepper. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) for total yield and other agronomic traits revealed that the main effect of intra row spacing showed highly significant effect on days to maturity, plant height, and total yield and the main effect of inter row spacing showed significant effect only on total yield. Similarly the main effect of year showed highly significance effect on, days to maturity, plant canopy, number of primary branches per plant, number of pods per plant, pod length, pod diameter and pod weight.. However the interaction effect was revealed highly significant effect on stand count. In this experiment 50cm inter row spacing and 20 intra row spacing found higher dry pod yield and yield component parameters. hence 50cm inter row spacing and 20 cm intra row spacing is recommended for the yield increment of small pod hot pepper in the studied areas of Western Oromia.

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