Research Article
Analysis of Selected Soil Properties in Relation to Soil and Water Conservation Practices in Sibiya Arera, Soro District, South Central Ethiopia
Table 1
Effects of land management on soil physical properties (mean ± standard deviations).
| Land management types | Sand (%) | Clay (%) | Silt (%) | BD (g/cm−3) |
| Fanya juu not supported with desho grass | 32.6 ± 2.413a | 38.7 ± 3.773a | 28.6 ± 2.119a | 1.18 ± 0.000a | Fanya juu supported with desho grass | 30.80 ± 1.936a | 40.50 ± 2.455a | 28.70 ± 1.537a | 1.17 ± 0.000a | Landscape without conservation practice (control field) | 40.2 ± 3.521b | 27.4 ± 2.989b | 32 ± 1.491b | 1.36 ± 0.000b | Mean | 34.43 ± 4.890 | 35.53 ± 6.606 | 29.77 ± 2.329 | 1.24 ± 0.000 | F | 34.362 | 52.974 | 12.251 | 32.439 | Sig | | | | |
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Means within a column followed by same letters in superscripts are not significantly different from each other at ; . |