Eritrea Crop Calendar

Northern western and southern Eritrea. Altitude: 400 - 1600 m. Relief: Flat to rolling plains, hills & mountains. Precipitation: 200 - 500 mm. Temperature : 21 - 29ºC

Practices: Pasturalizm, limited horticultural crops, fishing

Central and southern highland. Altitude: 1600 - 2600m (318m maximum). Relief Dominant slope: Undulating to rolling platzux, hills, ridges, valleys . Soil: Cambisols, luvisols, lithosols, vertisols . Temperature (Mean): 15 - 21ºC

Practices: Rainfed and irrigated agriculture, Agro-pasturalizm, mixed agriculture

South western Eritrea lower part of eastern escarpment. Altitude: 500 - 1600 m. Relief: Undulating to rolling plains and ridges . Soil: Cambisols, vertisols, fluvisoks, lithosols. Precipitation (mean): 500 - 800 mm. Temperature (Mean): 21 - 28ºC

Practices: Rainfed and irrigated agriculture Agro-pasturalizm

Coastal area, Ilands, and North west of the country. Altitude: 100 - 1355 m. Relief: Flat to rolling plains, hills and mountains. Soil: xerosols, solonchaks andosols, cambisols, lithosols. Precipitation (mean): Less than 200 mm. Temperature (mean): 24 - 32ºC

Practices: Rainfed and irrigated agriculture, pasturalizm

Central and easter escarpment. Altitude: 600-2600m. Relief: Steep escarpment with mountains & valleys. Soil: Lithosols, camisols, fluvisols. Precipitation (mean): 700 - 1100 mm. Temperature (mean): 16 - 27ºC

Practices: Rainfed and irrigated agriculture, pasturalizm, fishing