Site |
Altitude (m.a.s.l ) |
Major crops |
Soil type |
Meki |
1400 |
Teff, Wheat, Sorghum, Barley, Millet, Maize, Fieldpea, Chickpea, Lentils and Horsebean |
Shallow depth and has low total nitrogen contents |
Melkassa |
1550 |
Maize, Sorghum, Haricot beans and teff |
Andosols (dominant), Fluvisols and Lithosols |
Miesso |
1400 |
Sorghum, Maize, Common beans, Sesame, and Chat. |
Regosols (dominant), Lithosols, Luvisols and Cambisols |
Ziway |
1640 |
Maize, Teff, Horse bean, Barley, Wheat, Sorghum, Onion, Tomato, Cabbage |
loamy sand, and fertile |
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