The Uganda Atlas
Agro-Ecological
Rainfall
Minimum Altitude Dominant Soils
Farming system Photograph
Zone
(mm)
Temp 0 C (M)
1 West Nile Farmlands 900-1500 10
800-1800 Acric Ferralsols (696)
Annual crops
Leptosols (2470)
and cattle
Petric Plinthosols (1157)
2 Northwestern
700-1700 10
500-1500 Acric Ferralsols (3043)
Annual crops
Farmlands-Wooded
Arenosols (2260) Calcisols (116) Gleysols (51) Leptosols (11238)
and cattle
Savannah
Lixic Ferralsols (1588) Petric Plinthosols (567) Vertisols (1560)
3 Northern Moist
700-1700 15
1000-1200 Acric Ferralsols (5580)
Annual crops
Farmlands
Arenosols (285)
and cattle
Eutric Regosols (961) Gleysols (3113) Leptosols (1614) Lixic Ferralsols (982) Petric Plinthosols (10689) Vertisols (2718) Eutric Regosols (4023) Gleysols (1217) Leptosols (3971) Lixic Ferralsols (2577) Petric Plinthosols (3883) Vertisols (2058) Eutric Regosols (2,661) Gleysols (3,409) Leptosols (2,721) Lixic Ferralsols (5,354) Luvisols (1,481) Nitisols (283) Petric Plinthosols (1,028) Vertisols (12,001) Arenosols (127)
4 Northeastern-Central 700-1500 15
900-2500 Arenosols (1120)
Annual crops
Grass-Bush-Farmlands
and cattle
5 Northeastern
300-1300 12
900-3000 Acric Ferralsols (424)
Mainly pastoral with a few annual crops
Semi-arid Short
Grass Plain
6 Western Mid-Altitude 500-1700 10
700-1600 Acric Ferralsols (10706)
Banana, millet, cotton, coffee,
Farmlands and Semliki Flats
Arenosols (50) Calcisols (89)
and cattle
Dystric Regosols (1369) Gleysols (1907) Leptic/Skeletic Andosols (1167) Leptosols (178) Lixic Ferralsols (181) Luvisols (771) Petric Plinthosols (978) Vertisols (595)
7 Central Wooded
700-1300 15
900-1300 Acric Ferralsols (1591)
Banana, millet, cotton, coffee,
Savannah
Arenosols (375) Gleysols (3398)
and cattle
Leptosols (6) Petric Plinthosols (5751)
Figure 15a: Table showing Agro-ecological zones of Uganda (continued to next page)
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