Soil Health Management under Hill Agroecosystem of North East India

Table 5

Effect of different land use systems developed under FSRP, Meghalaya on soil physical properties.

Soil properties	Land use systems
	Agriculture	Agri-horti-silvipastoral	Forestry	Livestock based	Natural fallow	Shifting cultivation
Bulk density (Mg m^−3)	1.04	1.02	0.98	1.03	1.04	1.19
Total Porosity (%)	59.67	60.47	62.02	60.08	66.23	53.88
Macroaggregates (>0.25 mm)	21.72	54.19	54.47	50.02	50.53	18.17
Microaggregates (<0.25 mm)	47.85	23.23	23.81	22.80	21.90	42.34
MWD (mm)	2.76	2.99	3.16	2.85	2.93	2.31
Available water (m^3 m^−3)	0.210	0.222	0.231	0.220	0.233	0.169
Hydraulic Conductivity (cm hr^−1)	2.74	4.72	5.47	2.95	6.66	2.09

Source: [20].