Assessment of Selected Physicochemical Properties of Soils under Different Land Uses and Topographic Positions at Gola Wachu Subwatershed, Eastern Ethiopia

Table 5

Extractable micronutrients of soils in different land uses in each topographic position of the study area.

Soil properties	Land use types	Topographic positions
		Lower	Middle	Upper	LSD(0.05)
Fe (mg/kg)	Cultivated land	13.84^a	13.68^ab	13.23^c	0.398
	Grazing land	15.48^a	15.31^a	14.90^b
	Fallow land	14.63^a	14.29^a	13.82^b
Mn (mg/kg)	Cultivated land	19.93^a	19.08^b	19.07^b	0.106
	Grazing land	22.17^a	21.99^b	21.98^b
	Fallow land	21.98^a	21.25^b	20.63^b
Zn (mg/kg)	Cultivated land	0.55^a	0.52^a	0.47^b	0.113
	Grazing land	0.89^a	0.76^b	0.72^bc
	Fallow land	0.64^a	0.61^a	0.55^ab
Cu (mg/kg)	Cultivated land	1.28^a	1.26^ab	1.18^c	0.09
	Grazing land	1.37^a	1.34^ab	1.31^ab
	Fallow land	1.32^a	1.29^b	1.27^b

LSD = list significant difference, means within a row and column followed by different letters in superscripts are significantly different at according to Fisher’s LSD.