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

Table 2

Soil texture and bulk density under different land uses in each topographic position.

Soil properties	Land use types	Topographic positions
		Lower	Middle	Upper	LSD(0.05)
Sand (%)	Cultivated land	40^a	41^a	40^a	NS
	Grazing land	41^a	42^a	41^a
	Fallow land	40^a	41^a	40^a
Silt (%)	Cultivated land	22^a	23^a	23^a	NS
	Grazing land	23^a	23^a	23^a
	Fallow land	23^a	24^a	25^a
Clay (%)	Cultivated land	38^a	36^a	37^a	NS
	Grazing land	36^a	35^a	36^a
	Fallow land	37^a	35^a	35^a
BD (g/cm^3)	Cultivated land	1.27^a	1.29^b	1.33^c	0.06
	Grazing land	1.19^a	1.27^b	1.29^c
	Fallow land	1.25^a	1.28^b	1.29^c

BD = bulk density; LSD = least significant difference; NS = nonsignificant; means within rows and columns followed by different letters in superscripts are significantly different at according to Fisher’s LSD.