Recommended cultural practices for the characterization included
fertilizer NPK (15-15-15) as basal application at a rate of 200 kg ha-
1 during land preparation and urea was applied at the rate of 50 kg
ha-1 as top dressing at 14 DAS (first weeding) and at panicle
initiation. Agro-morphological data were collected for twenty-three
(23) characters at appropriate growth stage of rice plant following
the Standard Evaluation System (IRRI, 1996) and descriptors for
rice, Bioversity International-IRRI-AfricaRice (2007) (Table 2).
Descriptive analysis and ANOVA (using the mixed model) were
performed. Cluster analysis, using Euclidean distances within