Research Article

Evaluation of Soil Drainage Methods for the Productivity of Waterlogged Vertisols in Jama District, Eastern Amhara Region, Ethiopia

Table 2

Rainfall (mm), runoff (mm), runoff coefficient (%), and sediment yield analysis results during the growing periods with their combined mean.

Treatments20172018Combined
RORCSedRORCSedRORCSed

BBF120272.27a54.098.09312.37a55.9110.04292.32a55.059.12
BBF80264.38a52.528.04282.10b50.499.23273.20ab51.458.64
BBF40239.47b47.576.08271.40b48.588.83255.30b48.077.45
Std17.123.401.1521.253.800.6218.513.490.86
CV (%)11.6014.539.147.4012.1217.52
LSD (α = 5%)15.06NS57.27NS23.79NS
RF503.40558.70531.05

RO: runoff; RC: runoff coefficient; Sed: sediment; RF: rainfall; NS: not significant. Different superscript letters represent significant differences (), whereas means followed by the same letter are not significantly different ().