Evaluation of Different Substrates for Yield and Yield Attributes of Oyster Mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus) in Crop-livestock Farming System of Northern Ethiopia

Table 2: Effect of substrate type on consecutive flushes and total yield of Pleurotus ostreatus mushrooms

Substrate	Yield at 1^st Harvest	Yield at 2^nd Harvest	Yield at 3^rd Harvest	Total Yield
Cotton seed hull	1181.63^a	768.70^a	220.00^b	2170.33^a
Barley straw	743.47^b	435.07^b	308.36^a	1486.90^b
Teff straw	764.89^b	325.82^c	174.03^c	1264.74^c
Saw dust	399.03^c	328.90^c	100.67^d	828.60^d
Sesame stalk	355.67^c	324.37^c	123.20^d	803.23^d
F-test	***	***	***	***
LSD	77.52	57.35	27.25	101.21
CV	6.84	5.80	7.81	4.10

Means with the same letter within a column are statistically non-significant at P ≤ 0.05 according to Fishers’ LSD