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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