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 | AGRO-ECOLOGICAL LAND RESOURCES ASSESSMENT FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING A CASE STUDY OF KENYA RESOURCES DATA BASE AND LAND PRODUCTIVITY Technical Annex 1 Land Resources |
A.H. Kassam, H.T. van Velthuizen, G.W. Fischer and M.M. Shah
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2 CONCEPTS OF THE CLIMATIC INVENTORY
4.1 Computer Printout and Symbols
4.3 Quality of Moisture Supply
4.5 Variability in Moisture Conditions
5.2 Pattern of Length of Growing Period
5.3 Variability of Length of Growing Period
5.4 Intermediate Length of Growing Period
7 AREA INVENTORY OF CLIMATIC RESOURCES
8.1 Exploratory Soil Map of Kenya
8.9 Soil Mapping Unit Composition
9.1 Land use Overlays Computerized Land Resources Inventory
4.1 Growing period analysis for Lamu (station 9240001)
5.1 Mean total dominant (mapped) length of growing period and associated (unmapped) mean total length of growing periods
5.2 Mean total length of growing period and corresponding individual component length of growing periods
8.1 Extents of soil mapping units
8.2 Diagnostic horizons and properties of soil units
8.3 Soil mapping unit composition
9.1 Extract of land resources inventory of Kiambo District
Figures
4.1 Schematic presentation types of growing periods
5.1 Number of growing periods and dry periods per year
7.2 Generalized map of thermal zones
7.3 Generalized map of mean total dominant length of growing period zones
7.4 Generalized map of pattern of length of growing period zones
8.1 Generalized map of landforms
8.2 Generalized map of slope gradient classes
8.3 Generalized map of geology/parent material
8.4 Example soil mapping unit composition of soil mapping unit Ps3
9.1 Make up of land resources inventory
9.2 Generalized map of cash crop zones
9.3 Generalized map of forest zones
9.4 Generalized map of parkland areas
9.5 Generalized map of irrigation schemes
9.6 Generalized map of tse-tse infestation areas
Tables
3.1 Extract agroclimatic data bank - data set 1 (historical data)
3.2 Extract agroclimatic data bank -data set 2 (average climatic data)
3.3 Extract agroclimatic data bank -data set 3 (average data)
5.1 Patterns of growing periods -historical profiles of occurrence of number of growing periods per year
5.2 Relationships between mean total dominant and mean total associated lengths of growing period
5.3 Relationships between individual component mean length and total length of growing period
7.1 Extents of districts and provinces of Kenya
7.3 Extents of mean total dominant length of growingperiod zones
7.4 Extents of pattern of length of growing period zones
8.1 Occurrence of soil mapping units by landform
8.5 Quartiles of slope classes
8.7 Extents of geological units
8.9 Extents of textural classes
9.1 Extents of cash crop zones
9.4 Extents of irrigation schemes
9.5 Extents of tse-tse infestation areas