Variability in soil characteristics of the agricultural
management practices ranged between 3-42% (Table 1).
Moderate variation was observed in silt + clay contents
while the soil characteristics of pH, OC, WHC, Bd, and
Tp showed low variability at both depths. Organic C
content ranged between 10.5–16.7 and 6.9–15.6 (gkg-1
)
at 0–5cm and 5–20cm soil depths, respectively. Table1
also showed that OC concentration was higher at 0-5cm
depth relative to 5-20cm depth in all the management
practices. Soil bulk density was observed to be higher in
the top 0-5cm compared to 5-20cm soil depths. In
contrast to the observed higher bulk density values inthe
top 0-5 cm table 1 showed that higher amount of water
was retained at 5-20cm depths compared to 0-5cm