Table 5: Effect of PSWC measures on selected soil properties in highlands of Ethiopia.

SWC

Intervention

Study site

Land

Position

Bd (g/cm3)

SOM (%)

TN (%)

CEC (cmol/kg)

Soil property improvement due to SWC (%)

Reference

 

 

 

With SWC

Without

With

SWC

Without

With

SWC

Without

With

SWC

Without

Bd

OM

TN

CEC

 

SFSB

Wege

Alba watershed

Upper

-

-

13.90

11.09

0.048

0.03

25.84

22.87

-

25

41

13

Asnake and

Elias [29]

SFSB

Lole

watershed

Middle

0.97

1.08

4.21

2.75

0.32

0.17

38.53

21.47

10

53

88

79

Guadie, et

al. [27]

Graded stone bund

Adaa Berga

district

-

1.13

1.21

3.42

2.87

0.24

0.17

38.24

30.07

7

19

41

27

Abay, et al. [28]

Fanya juu

Goromti

Watershed

-

1.09

1.16

3.3

3.74

0.17

0.24

31.69

 

32.95

6

12

29.2

4

Hailu, et al. [111]

SFSB

Gondar Zuriya Woreda

Middle

1.1

1.33

4.1

3.2

0.23

0.15

-

-

17.3

28

53

-

Hailu [32]

Stone bund

Weday Watershed

 

-

-

2.4

1.8

0.12

0.09

12.27

11.93

 

33

33

3

Teressa [112]

Soil Bund + pigeon pea

Debre-

Yakob Watershed

Lower

1.35

1.77

3.01

2.40

0.11

0.09

30.17

27.31

24

25

22

10

Alemayehu

and Fisseha [81]

Soil bund and Manure

Zikre watershed

-

1.14

1.3

5.88

2.63

0.3

0.13

31.01

25.02

12

123

130

24

Selassie, et al. [78]

Note that SFSB = Stone- Faced Soil Bund.