BOX 1. KEYWORDS IN AEZ
Agro ecological Zoning Zone and Cell
Agro-ecological Zoning (AEZ)refers to the division of an
area of lend into smaller unitis, which have similar
characteristics related to land su1tability, potential production
and environmental impact.
An Agro-ecological Zone is a land resource mapping unit,
defined in terms of climate, landform and soils, and/or land
cover, and having a specific range of potentials and
constraints for land use.
An Agro-ecological Cell (AEC) is defined by a unique
combination of landform, soil and climatic characterist. The
AEC is the basic processing unit for physical analysis in an
AEZ study.
The essential elements in defining an agro-ecological zone
(or cell) are the growing period, temperature regime and soil
mapping unit.