Iii-Bukoba: High and Low Fertility on a Laterese'd Soil

Abstract

Soil conditions in the humid eastern part of Bukoba District, on the west side of Lake Victoria, are examined, first in the light of the natural factors in soil formation, which have led to laterization and general poverty in plant nutrients, but with local inequalities due to the parent rocks; and secondly in the light of the effects of human occupation, which have been to accentuate the local inequalities, so that the environs of villages are productive but the inter-village lands are infertile.