Sugarcane Landraces of Ethiopia: Germplasm Collection and Analysis of Regional Diversity and Distribution

Table 2

Mean soil physical and chemical properties of sugarcane fields in the surveyed regions.

Regions	Soil chemical properties						Texture (%)
	PH	EC(ds/m)	OC %	N%	P (ppm)	K(ppm)	Sand	Silt	Clay
Amhara	7.19	0.176	1.51	0.130	18.90	159.82	21	25	54
Benshangul-Gumz	6.73	0.139	2.85	0.178	3.45	97.74	23	22	55
Gambella	7.43	0.168	1.92	0.170	31.49	457.15	54	18	29
Harari	7.91	0.831	2.30	0.207	10.37	44.50	6	36	58
Oromia	7.16	0.302	2.59	0.236	11.19	237.70	27	22	51
SNNPR	6.96	0.115	1.85	0.180	29.19	472.72	24	28	48
Somali	8.36	0.293	1.21	0.070	3.22	114.90	10	35	55
Tigray	8.18	0.209	1.49	0.113	7.40	45.45	32	33	35