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State precautions necessary during soils sampling

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- Avoid contamination e.g by cigarette ash
- Avoid unused areas like ant-hill manure heaps etc
- Avoid mixing top – soil with sub-soil.

Kavungya answered the question on March 28, 2019 at 09:49

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