Land Use Data for Latitude 21.75 Longitude 85.75

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

Locations

Simlipal National Park
Simlipal Tiger Reserve

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Goats
Poultry

Crops

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

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209

Soil Types

Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Vertisols (Heavy clay)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

50 to 75
above 100

Mineral Extraction

Site Name (Type)Minerals
Boula Mining AreaChromium
Orissa DepositsManganese
Orissa StateManganese

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.