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Major Types Of Soil In Ethiopia. Basaltic rocks in the highlands and sedimentary rocks in the lowlands. Based on field assessment of rill and inter-rill erosion. In some few pockets of place metamorphic rocks are exposed. Vertisols Nitosols Acrisols and Cambisols are the most common soil types of agricultural land in the Ethiopian highlands.
Received 8 April 2015. Vertisols Nitosols Acrisols and Cambisols are the most common soil types of agricultural land in the Ethiopian highlands. The information and soil maps were developed using soil infrared spectrometry and remote sensing techniques. The Nitosols and Acrisols are not suitable for agriculture due to their. Land degradation reduced livestock productivity as a result of reduced grazing resources loss of. Accepted 6 June 2015 The soils of Jinka in Southern Ethiopia were studied based on the detail works on soil pit description characterizing and classification following the FAO and USDA guidelines.
The country the second most populous and the 9th largest in Africa has an area of 222.
Ethiopian highlands are affected by deforestation and degraded soils which have eroded the resource base and aggravated the repeated food shortages caused by drought Tilahun et al. Tesfaye et al 2014. The World Reference Base for Soil Resources WRB is universally accepted comprehensive soil classification system that enables people to accommodate their national classification system FAO 2006 and is widely adopted in Ethiopia. For this along with the topo- sequence and landscape six soil profiles were opened on an area of 100 ha of research field to make them suit for sustainable soil management practices. On surmounting this rocky barrier the traveller finds that the encircling rampart rises little above the normal level of the plateau. The lowland which accounts for 60 of the country contains various types of soils such as Fluvisols Vertisols Cambisols and other that can develop salt layer within short time.