Land Use Data for Latitude 15.75 Longitude 74.25

Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude

Locations

Bhimgad Forests
Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Urban land

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Goats
Poultry

Crops

Bananas
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Maize
Rice Paddy

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209

Soil Types

Plinthosols
Vertisols (Heavy clay)

Terrain

Plain or plateau
Mountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30

Population Density (persons per km2)

50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

50 to 75

Agricultural use data provided by LADA, 2008. "Mapping Land Use Systems at global and regional scales for Land Degradation Assessment Analysis. Version 1.0" Nachtergaele F. & Petri M.
Mineral extraction data provided by USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS), downloaded June 2, 2010.