Soil and Water Conservation Nexus Agricultural Productivity in Ethiopia

Table 6

Impact of SWC measures on soil properties [35].

Soil properties	Soil units
	Dystric cambisols	Dystric leptosol	Eutric cambisol	Eutric leptosol	Lithic leptosol	Mazi-eutric vertisol	Vertic vertisol
Presence %	19	6	2	30	18	10	1
Slope %	0–2	0–2	0–3	0–50	0–60	0–2	0–2
Rooting depth (cm)	>100	10	>100	55->100	<10	100	>100
Physical properties
Sand (g kg^−1)	680	—	920	750–800	680	540	550
Silt (g kg^−1)	270	—	40	120–160	270	170	280
Clay (g kg^−1)	50	—	40	50–90	50	290	170
Chemical properties
Organic carbon (g kg^−1)	18	—	4	3–15	18	21	4
N (g kg^−1)	0.75	—	0.6	0.6–0.7	0.8	0.8	1.0
pH (g kg^−1)	7.1	—	7.0	7.0–7.7	7.1	7.2	6.5