Land Use Data for Latitude 8.75 Longitude 5.75

Locations

Lower Kaduna: Middle Niger flood-plain

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Cassava
Cereals and cereal products
Maize
Melonseed
Oil-bearing crops
Spices (forestry plantations only)

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209

Soil Types

Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16

Population Density (persons per km²)

10 to 50
50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

50 to 75