Determination of Lime Requirement with Compost on Acidic Ultisols for Wheat Crop in the Gurage Zone of Ethiopia

Table 3

Soil and compost physicochemical properties used for the experiments.

Properties		The values obtained
		Soil	Compost
Soil texture	Sand (%)	21.33	—
	Silt (%)	21.00	—
	Clay (%)	57.67	—
Bulk density (g·cm^−3)		1.10	—
Soil color	Dry	10YR5/1	—
	Moist	10YR4/1	—
pH		4.90	4.5
Organic carbon (%)		2.17	9.07
Electrical conductivity (dSm^−1)		—	9.08
N (%)		0.17	1.26
Av.P (ppm)		1.63	427.92
Cation exchange capacity (cmolc·kg^−1)		27.24	44.91
Exchangeable Ca (cmolc·kg^−1)		0.35	0.55
Exchangeable Mg (cmolc·kg^−1)		0.29	0.23
Exchangeable K (cmolc·kg^−1)		0.003	0.085
Exchangeable Na (cmolc·kg^−1)		—	0.022
Exchangeable acidity (cmolc·kg^−1)		0.73	0.22