Explaining Soil Fertility Heterogeneity in Smallholder Farms of Southern Ethiopia

Table 7

Descriptive statistics of soil micronutrients (B Cu, Fe, Mn, and Zn) for surface soils.

District	Descriptive statistics	B	Cu	Fe	Mn	Zn
		mg/kg
Damot Gale (N = 243)	Mean	0.56	0.47	133.0	521.0	10.59
	Std. dev	0.30	0.41	29.0	162.0	7.13
	Median	0.48	0.40	133.0	523.0	8.80
	Minimum	0.01	0.01	22.0	84.0	1.10
	Maximum	1.82	5.00	259.0	950.0	51.00
	CV (%)	54.0	87.0	22.0	31.0	67.0
Damot Sore (N = 216)	Mean	0.60	0.78	131.0	510.0	9.03
	Std. dev	0.41	0.44	42.0	160.0	5.73
	Median	0.51	0.68	124.0	490.0	7.60
	Minimum	0.20	0.01	61.0	61.0	0.30
	Maximum	4.97	2.66	392.0	912.0	36.80
	CV (%)	68	56	32	33	63
Sodo Zuria (N = 330)	Mean	0.50	0.46	120.0	599.0	7.29
	Std. dev	0.41	0.27	55.0	223.0	8.13
	Median	0.42	0.41	104.0	616.0	5.40
	Minimum	0.18	0.01	45.0	50.0	0.70
	Maximum	6.90	1.42	384.0	1138	117.40
	CV (%)	82	59	46	37	112
Total (N = 789)	Mean	0.55	0.55	127.0	551.0	8.78
	Std. dev	0.38	0.39	45.0	193.0	7.36
	Median	0.46	0.47	119.0	545.0	7.20
	Minimum	0.01	0.01	22.0	50.0	0.30
	Maximum	6.90	5.00	392.0	1138.0	117.40
	CV (%)	69	71	35	35	84
	Fvalue	4.7	56.1	7.3	18.8	14.8

Numbers in brackets refer to sample size; , significant at , respectively.