Research Article
Analysis of Selected Soil Properties in Relation to Soil and Water Conservation Practices in Sibiya Arera, Soro District, South Central Ethiopia
Table 3
Effects of land management on selected soil properties (mean ± standard deviations).
| Land management types | CEC (meq/100 gm soil) | Na (cmol/kg) | K (cmol/kg) | Ca (cmol/kg) | Mg (cmol/kg) |
| Fanya juu not supported with desho grass | 28.4 ± 2.547a | 0.23 ± 0.000a | 0.18 ± 0.422a | 14.46 ± 1.567a | 6.18 ± 1.563a | Fanya juu supported with desho grass | 28.8 ± 2.833a | 0.24 ± 0.000a | 1.67 ± 0.441a | 14.47 ± 1.424a | 6.2 ± 1.616a | Landscape without conservation practice (control field) | 21.31 ± 0.160b | 0.13 ± 0.000b | 0.8 ± 0.000b | 10.9 ± 0.738b | 3.77 ± 0.483b | Mean | 26.17 ± 4.161 | 0.2 ± 0.000 | 1.38 ± 0.507 | 13.28 ± 2.086 | 5.39 ± 1.675 | F | 32.901 | 0.000 | 18.00 | 21.189 | 10.328 | Sig | | | | | |
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Means within a column followed by same letters in superscripts are not significantly different from each other at ; . |