Cameroon Crop Calendar

Cete region includes many flat contrantant with hills and mountains altitude vary from 1000 to 2000 m. It is characterized by the existence of a dense network hydrographyque including many rivers and sources of all the rivers of Cameroon whose Sanaga. Altitude: Average of 1 100 m, ranging from 900 to 1500 m from north to south. Soil type ferralitique weakly to strongly desaturated shallower with good porosity. Two seasons of almost equal duration: from November to March: dry season from April to October: rainy season. annual rainfall: 1500 m. Pluvimétrie: unimodal. Temperatures: Maxi Maxi annual average: 29.8 ° C, average annual Mini: 17 ° C. Relative humidity: average annual High: 89.58% average annual Mini: 44.16%.

Practices: manual agriculture and animal traction, maize monoculture, use of engraise on corn, policuluture for other food crops. mechanized agriculture on maize by large farmers. Cultures brulis

These are the coastal plains that include the Littoral, South West and part of the South. Mount Cameroon with its 4070 m above sea level rises in this flat in Buea in the South West and fertilizes immense plains suitable for mechanized agriculture. Altitude: 0-500 m. Soils: hydromorphe type volcanic and ferrallitic red. Two seasons: a rainy season logue with a dry season from mid-March to mid-November. Precipitation (2 000-4 500 mm per year). Pluvimétrie: monoimodale.Vent dominant: monsoon coming from the Gulf of Guinea. Temperatures: Maxi annual average: 29.8 ° C, Mini annual average: 21.5 ° C. Relative humidity: Maxi annual average: 98%, average annual Mini: 68%. Prevailing wind: Monsoon comes from the Gulf of Guinea. Vegetation: sempivirante Forests, mangroves.

Practices: manual agriculture, policuluture for food crops. Large industrial platations rubber, tea, table banana and oil palm. Labors dishes

The western mountainous region includes the western provinces and the Northwest. This area has an average altitude lly high steep slopes of the many hills with fertile volcanic cover. Altitude: Plateau Bamiléké: 1 400-1800 m, Plateau Bamun: 1 100- 1 200 m, Plateau grassfields; 1 500- 2000 m. Soil type ferrallitic and volcanic places. Two seasons: a logue season in mid-March of rain in November and December a small dry season in mid-March. Precipitation (1 750-2 700 mm per year). Pluvimétrie: monomodale.Températures Maxi annual average: 24.73 ° C, Mini yearly average: 15.48 ° C. Relative Humidity: Max average annual 94% average annual Mini: 54.62% .Végétation: savannah altitude.

Practices: manual farming and animal traction ridges, policuluture for food crops. Practices écorbiage. Contour plowing on flants hills.

Bounded on the north by the Adamawa Province, south by Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Congo to the west of the western provinces and the Littoral, on the east by the CAR. Altitude: 500-800 m. Soil type red ferrallitic. Four seasons: a long rainy season from mid-March to mid-August, a small dry from mid-August to November, a long dry season from December to mid-March and a short dry season from mid-August to October. Precipitation (1 400-2 000 mm per year). Rainfall: bimodal. Temperatures: Maxi annual average: 21.15 ° C, Mini yearly average: 19.85 ° C. Relative humidity: Maxi annual average: 98%, average annual Mini: 63%. Vegetation: Forest semideciduous and savannah derivative.

Practices: manual agriculture and animal traction, policuluture for food crops. Labors dishes manuals

This overall average altitude of 200m includes the provinces of North and Far North. Many isolated massifs sometimes amounting to over 200 m (Gorna, Polish, Tcholiré) sometimes disrupt the monotony of the vast plains. Soil type ferruginous relatively rich in chemical elements, but susceptible to erosion phenomenon especially pronounced slope. Rainfall misallocated on tois months (500 to 1000 mm per year). Pluvimétrie: monomodale.Températures Maxi annual average: 33.8 ° C, Mini yearly average: 20 ° C. Relative humidity: average annual High: 73%, average annual Mini 35%. Prevailing wind: Harmattan. Vegetation: Steppe with thorny woodland and dry savannah.

Practices: manual agriculture and animal traction, usually performed monoculture, use of fertilizers and phytosanitary traiement on cotton and irrigated rice. Irrigation for rice and Lagdo SEMRY.