Zone/Districts
|
Food
crops
|
Agricultural
form
|
Main
cash crops |
Bugosa
|
Maize
Beans
Sesame (simsim)
|
Millet/Cotton
|
Cotton, Groundnuts
to a
lesser extent,
Coffee growing started
prior to the 1960s
|
North
Bugosa
|
Banana
and coffee
did not grow well,
staple was finger
millet
|
Millet/Banana/Coffee
system
|
|
| North
Bukedi |
Millet |
Millet/Coffee
system
|
Cotton
small quantities
food crops
particularly
ground nuts |
| South
Bukedi |
Cooking
bananas |
Banana
/Coffee system
|
Cotton
small quantities
food crops
particularly
ground nuts |
|
Ankole
|
Cooking
banana
The west was
the most
cultivated
part
|
|
Robusta
Arabica
coffee |
| Kiganda
(Baganda people) |
Plantain (matoke)
Other types of
bananas
Sweet potato, Cassava
Yams, Maize,
Sesame,
Beans, Groundnuts
|
|
Cotton
Coffee
|
| Teso |
Millet
of
various kinds
Cassava
Maize
Sweet potato
Ground nuts*
|
Cattle
keeping,
mixed agriculture
|
Cotton |
|
Western
shores of Lake Viktoria, Bahaya people
|
Cooking
bananas (plantain)
Sweet potatoes
Maize
Cassava
Yams
|
|
|
| Karamoja |
Sorghum
|
Sorghum
-cattle keeping
pastoral
|
|
*Groundnuts
replaced sweet potatoes and green vegetables
during the dry season when theses adjuvants
were not available. Although groundnuts
contain 50% of oil they were not a source
of vitamin A.
References:
Rutishauser, I. H. E. (1963). "Custom
and child Health in Buganda." Tropical
Geographic Medicine 15: 138-147.
Loewenthal, J. A. (1935). "An inquiry
into vitamin A deficiency among the population
of the Teso, Uganda, with special reference
to school children." Annual Tropical
Medicine 29: 349.
Holmes, E., M. Stanier, et al. (1955).
"The serum protein pattern of Africans
in Uganda: Relation to diet and malaria."
Trans. Roy. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 49: 376.
Food crops and food habits of Africans
in Kampala, Karamoja and Kigezi during
the 1940s and 1950s
Kampala
Countryside: 4000', flat, swampy,
high rainfall throughout the year;
Habit: Agriculture
Karamoja
Countryside: 4000', flat, semi-desert,
rainfall (in 2 periods) between March
and September; no rain September to March
Habit: Mainly pastoral (cows, goats,
sheep, a little agriculture)
Kigezi
Countryside: 6000' - 8000', hilly,
high rainfall
Habit: Agriculture
Reference: Holmes, E.,
M. Stanier, et al. (1955). "The serum
protein pattern of Africans in Uganda:
Relation to diet and malaria." Trans.
Roy. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 49: 376.
An investigation into agriculture
and cultivation in Teso, Uganda 1937
A combined agricultural and health survey
of two small administrative units (antagoles)
has been carried out in Teso during 1937.
In one of the antagoles with the denser
population and negligible consumption
of food of animal origin, significant
correlations were obtained between nutritional
health and certain agricultural and economic
factors.
Figures are given for a comparison between
agricultural and economic conditions in
Ajuluku and Opami
PDF:
An
investigation into Health and Agriculture
in Teso, Uganda 1937
Agricultural patterns in Uganda during
the 1960s
PDF:
Food
consumption in Uganda
Food production and supplies in East
Africa, FAO Rome 1961
PDF:
Food
supplies and consumption in East Africa_1961
Agriculture in Bugosa, Bukedi and
Ankole district in 1960
Reference: Burgess, H.
J. L. (1962). "Protein-calorie malnutrition
in Uganda, II-Busoga District, III-Bukedi
District, IV-Bugisu District, V-Ankole
district." E.A. Med J 39.
Summary of agricultural investigations
and reports from the Uganda Protectorate
Nutrition Committee in 1945
PDF:
Review
of nutrition in Uganda_1945
The system of peasant agriculture
practices in Buganda
Reference: Rutishauser,
I. H. E. (1963). "Custom and child
Health in Buganda." Tropical Geographic
Medicine 15: 138-147.
Agriculture and ecosystem
of the Karamojong
Reference: Jelliffe, D.
B., B. F. J, et al. (1964). "Ecology
of childhood disease in the Karamojong
in Uganda." Archives of environmental
health 9: 25-36.
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