Research Article
Explaining Soil Fertility Heterogeneity in Smallholder Farms of Southern Ethiopia
Table 3
Descriptive statistics of soil pH, exchangeable acidity, and acid saturation for surface soils.
| | Districts | Descriptive statistics | pH (H2O) | Exc. acidity (cmol (+)/kg) | Acid saturation (%) |
| | Damot Gale (N = 243) | Mean | 6.4 | 0.00 | 0.10 | | Std. dev | 0.5 | 0.10 | 0.60 | | Median | 6.3 | 0.00 | 0.00 | | Minimum | 5.2 | 0.00 | 0.00 | | Maximum | 8.0 | 1.30 | 7.10 | | CV (%) | 8.0 | — | — |
| | Damot Sore (N = 216) | Mean | 6.0 | 0.50 | 2.30 | | Std. dev | 0.7 | 1.00 | 4.70 | | Median | 5.9 | 0.00 | 0.00 | | Minimum | 4.5 | 0.00 | 0.00 | | Maximum | 7.8 | 5.10 | 20.80 | | CV (%) | 12.0 | — | — |
| | Sodo Zuria (N = 330) | Mean | 5.9 | 0.40 | 2.20 | | Std. dev | 0.6 | 0.90 | 4.40 | | Median | 5.9 | 0.00 | 0.00 | | Minimum | 4.7 | 0.00 | 0.00 | | Maximum | 7.4 | 4.10 | 19.50 | | CV (%) | 10.0 | — | — |
| | Total (N = 789) | Mean | 6.1 | 0.30 | 1.60 | | Std. dev | 0.6 | 0.80 | 3.90 | | Median | 6.1 | 0.00 | 0.00 | | Minimum | 4.5 | 0.00 | 0.00 | | Maximum | 8.0 | 5.10 | 20.80 | | CV (%) | 10.0 | — | — | | Fvalue | 49.0 | 26.0 | 27.0 | | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Numbers in brackets refer to sample size.
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