Physical and hydraulic properties of soils under a long-term tillage practices in Hadejia Local Government Area, Jigawa State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study was conducted to determine the effects of different tillage practices on somephysical and hydraulic properties of soils in Hadejia Local Government Area of Jigawa stateduring the 2017 cropping season. The field experiment was laid in a Randomized CompleteBlock (RCB) Design in factorial arrangements with 4 treatments for tillage practices-TP(Zero tillage-ZT, Minimum tillage-MT, Conventional tillage-CT and Deep tillage-DT) andsampling depth-SD (5 cm, 15 cm, 25 cm and 35 cm) all were in four replicates. Datacollected were analyzed using the generalized linear model of Statistical Analyses System(SAS 9.4) for the ANOVA. The results showed that there were significant differences(p