Effectiveness of Community-Based Soil and Water Conservation in Improving Soil Property in Damota Area, Southern Ethiopia

Table 1

Comparisons of the mean values of sand, silt, clay contents, and bulk density under different SWC treatments and the nonconserved plots.

	Soil texture					BD (g·cm^−3)
	Sand (%)	Clay (%)	Silt (%)	Soil texture	Textural class
CP	24.938	54.583	21.646	Fine	Clay	1.186
NCP	26.617	52.958	20.483	Fine	Clay	1.231
F	0.920	0.974	0.213	—	—	5.611
	0.342^ns	0.329^ns	0.647^ns	—	—	0.022

CP, conserved plot; NCP, nonconserved plot; F, F-test; , value; ns, nonsignificant mean difference (). and implies the mean difference between conserved and nonconserved plots significant at and 0.01 levels, respectively.