Land Use Data for Latitude 22.25 Longitude 91.75

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

Locations

Patenga Beach

Agricultural Land Uses

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

Cereals and cereal products
Rice Paddy

Growing Period (days)

240 to 269

Soil Types

Acrisols
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)

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)

40 to 50
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.