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

Table 2

The significance test of mean differences of soil chemical properties between conserved and nonconserved plots.

	pH (H2O)	OC (%)	TN (%)	Av. P (ppm)	CEC and exch. basis (cmol(+) kg^−1)
					CEC	Na^+	K^+	Ca^2+	Mg^2+
CP	5.820	2.265	0.257	8.159	36.541	0.432	0.595	12.938	11.448
NCP	5.740	2.042	0.234	7.540	34.208	0.417	0.539	11.307	10.576
F	2.487	8.033	9.867	4.717	10.088	1.039	8.359	9.387	2.481
	0.122^ns	0.007	0.003	0.035	0.003	0.313^ns	0.006	0.004	0.122^ns

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 the and 0.01 levels, respectively.