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Uganda Land Use
In the southern half of the country, rich soil and
rainfall
permit extensive agriculture, and in the drier and less
fertile
northern areas, pastoral economies are common.
Approximately 21
percent of the land is cultivated and 45 percent is
woodland and
grassland, some of which has been cleared for roads,
settlements,
and farmland in the south. Approximately 13 percent of the
land
is set aside as national parks, forests, and game
reserves.
Swampland surrounding lakes in the southern and central
regions
supports abundant papyrus growth. The central region's
woodlands
and savanna give way to acacia and cactus growth in the
north.
Valuable seams of copper, cobalt, and other minerals have
been
revealed along geological fault lines in the southeast and
southwest
(see Mining
, ch. 3). Volcanic foothills in the
east
contain phosphates and limestone.
Data as of December 1990
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