Fertility Status of Acid Soils under Different Land Use Types in Wolaita Zone, Southern Ethiopia

Table 7

Mean Values (n = 108) of organic carbon (OC), total nitrogen (TN), and available Phosphorus (Av.P) in different locations and land uses.

Sodo zuria					Damot gale
Land use types	TN	Av.P	OC	C : N	TN	Av.P	OC	C : N
	(%)	(mg kg^−1)	(%)		(mg kg^−1)	(%)
Enest-coffee	0.17a	18.70a	1.60a	9.41	0.14a	20.58a	1.70a	12.14
Crop land	0.16b	10.57b	1.50b	9.37	0.12b	11.74b	1.60b	13.33
Grazing	0.16b	12.00c	1.60c	10.00	0.12b	14.56c	1.70a	14.16
Mean	0.16	13.76	1.56		0.30	15.63	1.66	13.21
CV (%)	6.10	10.65	11.7		12.1	11.39	11.1
LSD (0.05)	0.05	1.46	0.10		0.01	2.24	0.10
	Damot sore				Boloso sore
Enest-coffee	0.17a	17.72a	1.71a	10.05	0.19a	16.87a	1.41a	7.42
Crop land	0.13b	10.70b	1.40b	10.76	0.15b	7.44b	1.30b	8.66
Grazing	0.19c	13.87c	1.40b	7.36	0.16b	8.25b	1.51c	9.43
Mean	0.16	14.10	1.50	9.39	0.16	10.85	1.40
CV (%)	5.70	11.88	8.55		8.63	11.59	8.62
LSD (0.05)	0.05	2.23	0.14		0.04	2.34	0.14