Abstract
The importance of soil colour as the most striking soil property for soil characterization by the indigenous people (small farmers) of southwestern Nigeria is investigated. Three descriptive factors (nomenclature, origin and physical appearance) and four classificatory factors (location, composition, fertility and differentiation) were identified. Significant variations exist between the small farmers and modern science description of soil colours. Furthermore, the top and subsoil layers are not entirely identical as the farmers would like to assume. More work on the characterization of soil types identified by the farmers, using diagnostic physical and chemical properties, needs to be undertaken.
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