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RAINFALL RECORD (inches) AT KONGWA
Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
1947-48 1948-49
1947-48
1948-49 1947-48
1948-49
November
0.23
0.3
No record
0.49
0.18
December
5.74
1·14
0-51
1.22
1-78
*
January
5.31
3.38
4.85
2.18
$2.77
February
2.39
5.01:
0.75
5.24
No
5.02
March
7.18
1-14
5.47
0.63
records
1.09
April
1.71
1.47
2.62
0-24
...
1.16
May
0.41
0.11
0.13
0.21
•
0.35
Junie
0.06
nil
0.08
nil
nil
SEASON TOTAL
23.03
12.55
14.41
10-21
12.35
B.
URAMBO
REGION
96. When, on April 1, 1948, the Corporation took over control at Urambo, the target for the agricultural year was the clearance and planting of 2,000
acres.
97. Of that figure a total of 833 acres had been flattened, 605 acres of which had been to provide a protective tsetse-free bel
around the village. and 228 acres of land destined for agricultural production. The only other agricultural work being carried out was on two experimental plots.
98. During the year 2,789 acres were sown as follows:-
Groundnuts Sunflowers Maize
487 acres 2,052 acres 250 acres
99. Rainfall records of any length of time are confined to those taken at Tabora, where the mean value is 33.40 inches based on 40 years' readings.
100. These records show the following years which experience rainfalls
below 20 inches:-
1901/02 season 1909/10 season
1948/49 season
10.78 inches
....
18.53 inches 18.92 inches
101. Otherwise all the seasons except that of 1924/25 (21.73 inches) have had upwards of 24 inches.
102. The soils are of three main types: the red, the grey and the Mbuga or blackish, of which the first two make up the higher portions and the alluvial soils the sides and the channels of the drainage lines. These soils tend to be patterned on the catena system, their distribution being con- ditioned by topography, but this catena arrangement may, from time to time, be broken.
103. In terms of nutrients and depth these soils are less satisfactory than those at Kongwa but in physical characteristics are more amenable to field husbandry operations. Compaction is negligible except in certain circum- stances in the grey soils, while abrasiveness is not a factor of any importance. Page 150 of 1097
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