Agro-Ecological Rainfall Minimum Altitude Dominant Soils Farming system Photograph
Zone (mm) Temp
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C (M)
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 - - -
Figure 15a: Table showing Agro-ecological zones in Uganda (continued from previous page)
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