Date: _________ Village/Ward/District: _________________________________ (draw a sketch map of tested area overleaf) Agricultural activity: ___________________ Soil Type/Description: ___________________ Productivity: _____________________ Days since 20 mm rain: ____ Soil moisture condition at testing time (tick): dry ……………, moist ………..…, water logged …………
S/N	Test/score	Poor (1-3)	Fair (4-6)	Good (7-9)	Scores of individual tests runs from same soil type (1-9)
1	Ease of penetration (using a penetrometer)	Wire probe will not penetrate	Wire probe penetrates with difficulty to less than 20 cm	Wire probe easily penetrates to 20 cm
2	Ease of infiltration	More than 7 minutes	3 to 7 minutes	Less than 3 minutes
3	Diversity of macro-life	Fewer than two types of soil animals	Two to five types of soil animals	More than five types of soil animals
4	Earthworms	0 - 3	4 - 6	More than 6
5	Soil structure	Mostly in clods or with a surface crust, few crumbs	Some clods but also many 10 mm crumbs	Friable, readily breaks into 10 mm crumbs
6	Root development	Few fine roots only found near the surface	Some fine roots mostly near the surface	Many fine roots throughout
7	Aggregate stability, 10 - 20 cm depth	Aggregate broke apart in less than one minute	Aggregate remained intact after one minute	Aggregate remained intact after swirling
8	Soil pH, 5 - 20 cm depth	pH 5 or lower	pH 5.5	pH 6 to pH 7
9	Plant size and leaf colour	Stunted plants, leaf discolouration	Some variation in growth and colour	Appropriate leaf colour and uniform plant growth