Land Use Data for Latitude 23.75 Longitude 84.25

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

Locations

Palamau Tiger Reserve
Palamau Tiger Reserve

Agricultural Land Uses

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

Ecosystems

Subtopical humid

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Goats

Crops

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

Growing Period (days)

150 to 179

Soil Types

Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Lixisols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

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

Mineral Extraction

Site Name (Type)Minerals
KhamdihGraphite
SokraGraphite

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.