Agro-Ecological Rainfall Minimum Altitude Dominant Soils Farming system Photograph
Zone (mm) Temp
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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) and cattle
Savannah Calcisols (116)
Gleysols (51)
Leptosols (11238)
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)
4 Northeastern-Central 700-1500 15 900-2500 Arenosols (1120) Annual crops
Grass-Bush-Farmlands Eutric Regosols (4023) and cattle
Gleysols (1217)
Leptosols (3971)
Lixic Ferralsols (2577)
Petric Plinthosols (3883)
Vertisols (2058)
5 Northeastern 300-1300 12 900-3000 Acric Ferralsols (424) Mainly pastoral
Semi-arid Short Arenosols (127) with a few
Grass Plain Eutric Regosols (2,661) annual crops
Gleysols (3,409)
Leptosols (2,721)
Lixic Ferralsols (5,354)
Luvisols (1,481)
Nitisols (283)
Petric Plinthosols (1,028)
Vertisols (12,001)
6 Western Mid-Altitude 500-1700 10 700-1600 Acric Ferralsols (10706) Banana, millet,
Farmlands and Arenosols (50) cotton, coffee,
Semliki Flats 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,
Savannah Arenosols (375) cotton, coffee,
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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