Kenya Climatic Zones

<span style='font-family: Arial, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'><font size='3'>Kenya is a land of Highlands, rift valleys, great lakes, and considerable variations in precipitation and temperature. </font></span><span style='color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>Agriculture remains the mainstay of the Kenyan's economy, providing 26% of the GDP, and 80% of the rural population derives their livelihood from agriculture and other related activities. It is also the nations' top earner of foreign exchange, contributing about 60% of export earnings. Farms in Kenya range from small-scale subsistence family operations to large-scale mechanized enterprises with crops and/or livestock. </span><span style='color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>Kenya has a wide range of soil types, which is caused by large variation in geology (parent material), relief and climate. Soil types vary from sandy to clayey, shallow to very deep, and from low to high fertility. However, many soil types have serious limitations such as salinity, sodicity, acidity, fertility and drainage problems. The major soil types used in agriculture are ferralsols, vertisols, acrisols, lixisols, luvisols and nitisols.</span>