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8 Southern and Eastern 700-1700 15
900-1300 Acric Ferralsols (1364)
Banana, millet, cotton,
Lake Kyoga Basin
Arenosols (27)
cattle, and a few
Gleysols (3972)
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
Farmlands
2100
Gleysols (81)
coffee, forest(higher
Lixic Ferralsols (461)
altitudes), and a
Luvisols (52)
few annual crops
Nitisols (1846)
Petric Plinthosols (189)
Vertisols (28)
10 Western Medium-
500 - >2100 7.5
600-4500 Acric Ferralsols (840)
Banana, coffee,
High Farmlands
Dystric Regosols (81)
cattle, and forest
Histosols (93)
(higher altitudes)
Leptic/Skeletic
Andosols (975)
Lixic Ferralsols (43)
Luvisols (701)
Melanic Andosols (62)
11 Southwestern Grass
300-1100 10
1100-2000 Acric Ferralsols (8365)
Banana, coffee, cattle,
- Farmlands
Dystric Regosols (2553)
and some annual crops
Eutric Regosols (436)
Gleysols (2484)
Leptosols (522)
Lixic Ferralsols (4027)
Planosols (32)
12 Lake Victoria
700 - >2100 12.5
1100-2400 Acric Ferralsols (5554)
Banana, coffee, millet,
Crescent &
Arenosols (129)
cotton, and annual crops
Mbale Farmlands
Gleysols (3869)
Leptosols (230)
Lixic Ferralsols (6452)
Luvisols (59)
Nitisols (1776)
Petric Plinthosols (2561)
Planosols (797)
Vertisols (5)
13 Ssese Islands
700 - >2100 15
1100-1300 Acric Ferralsols (47)
Intensive banana, coffee,
Sango Plains
Arenosols (237)
and annual crops
Gleysols (55)
Leptosols (47)
Lixic Ferralsols (346)
Petric Plinthosols (476)
Planosols (1003)
14 Southwestern
700-2100 7.5
1100-4000 Acric Ferralsols (840)
Annual crops
Highlands
Dystric Regosols (81)
and Forest
Histosols (93)
Leptic/Skeletic
Andosols (975)
Lixic Ferralsols (43)
Luvisols (701)
Melanic Andosols (62)
Lake
700 - >2100 17.5
1100
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Rainfall
Minimum Altitude Dominant Soils
Farming system Photograph
Zone
(mm)
Temp
0
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Figure 15a: Table showing Agro-ecological zones in Uganda (continued from previous page)
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