Land Use Data for Latitude 8.75 Longitude 80.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations
Agricultural Land UsesForestry - Agro forestryForestry - Plantations Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial) Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation Agriculture in protected areas EcosystemsWarm Tropics drylandsLivestockBuffaloesCattle Goats CropsCereals and cereal productsCoffee Green (also in forestry plantations) Groundnuts in Shell Rice Paddy Roots tubers Sweet Potatoes Growing Period (days)120 to 149150 to 179 Soil TypesFluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides) Luvisols Solonchaks (Saline) TerrainPlain or plateauSlopes (degrees)0.5 to 22 to 5 Population Density (persons per km2)10 to 5050 to 250 Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)2 to 55 to 10 10 to 20 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. |