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Table 5 The effect of ALM practices on selected soil quality indicators between intervention types and treatment age

From: Effect of agricultural land management practices on the selected soil quality indictors: empirical evidences from the south Ethiopian highlands

Properties of soil

Treated with integrated measures for 5 and 10 years

Treated with only with physical measures for 5 and 10 years

F

p

F

p

Sand (%)

19.09

0.000**

11.63

0.000**

Silt (%)

0.766

0.47ns

1.53

0.228ns

Clay (%)

14.64

0.000**

7.79

0.001*

BD \(( gm/{cm}^{3})\)

2.79

0.247ns

2.16

0.142ns

pH H2O (1:2.5)

26.89

0.000**

12.10

0.000*

SOC (%)

14.03

0.000**

7.01

0.002*

SOM (%)

15.36

0.000**

8.63

0.001*

TN (%)

7.26

0.001*

2.13

0.131ns

Av. P (ppm)

6.23

0.000**

2.74

0.075ns

S (ppm)

4.19

0.019*

1.23

0.302ns

B (ppm)

5.49

0.010*

2.61

0.085ns

CEC (meq/100gm)

6.44

0.000**

4.38

0.018*

K (ppm)

2.42

0.097ns

0.92

0.408ns

  1. ns non-significant
  2. *Significant at p ≤ 0.05
  3. **Significant at p ≤ 0.01