The Uganda Atlas

Agro-Ecological

Rainfall

Minimum Altitude Dominant Soils

Farming system Photograph

Zone

Temp 0 C (M)

(mm)

8 Southern and Eastern 700-1700 15

900-1300 Acric Ferralsols (1364)

Banana, millet, cotton,

Lake Kyoga Basin

Arenosols (27) Gleysols (3972)

cattle, and a few

annual crops

Leptosols (1) Lixic Ferralsols (71) Petric Plinthosols (7895) Vertisols (42)

9 Mount Elgon

900 – over 7.5

1000-4000 Acric Ferralsols (62)

Intensive banana and coffee, forest(higher

Farmlands

2100

Gleysols (81)

Lixic Ferralsols (461)

altitudes), and a few annual crops

Luvisols (52)

Nitisols (1846) Petric Plinthosols (189) Vertisols (28)

10 Western Medium-

500 - >2100 7.5

600-4500 Acric Ferralsols (840)

Banana, coffee, cattle, and forest (higher altitudes)

High Farmlands

Dystric Regosols (81)

Histosols (93)

Leptic/Skeletic Andosols (975) Lixic Ferralsols (43) Luvisols (701) Melanic Andosols (62) Dystric Regosols (2553) Eutric Regosols (436) Gleysols (2484) Leptosols (522) Lixic Ferralsols (4027) Planosols (32) Gleysols (3869) Leptosols (230) Lixic Ferralsols (6452) Luvisols (59) Nitisols (1776) Petric Plinthosols (2561) Planosols (797) Vertisols (5) Arenosols (129) Gleysols (55) Leptosols (47) Lixic Ferralsols (346) Petric Plinthosols (476) Planosols (1003) Dystric Regosols (81) Histosols (93) Leptic/Skeletic Andosols (975) Lixic Ferralsols (43) Luvisols (701) Melanic Andosols (62) Arenosols (237)

11 Southwestern Grass

300-1100 10

1100-2000 Acric Ferralsols (8365)

Banana, coffee, cattle, and some annual crops

- Farmlands

12 Lake Victoria

700 - >2100 12.5

1100-2400 Acric Ferralsols (5554)

Banana, coffee, millet, cotton, and annual crops

Crescent &

Mbale Farmlands

13 Ssese Islands

700 - >2100 15

1100-1300 Acric Ferralsols (47)

Intensive banana, coffee,

Sango Plains

and annual crops

14 Southwestern

700-2100 7.5

1100-4000 Acric Ferralsols (840)

Annual crops

Highlands

and Forest

Lake

700 - >2100 17.5

1100

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Figure 15a: Table showing Agro-ecological zones in Uganda (continued from previous page)

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