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Legend Gullied and/ or ravinous land (Medium) Mon Gullied and/ or ravinous land (Deep) ASSAM Land with Dense Scrub Land with Open Scrub Waterlogged and Marshy land (Permanent) Waterlogged and Marshy land (Seasonal) Mokokchung Land Affected by salinity / alkalinity (Moderate) Land Affected by salinity / alkalinity (Strong) Shifting Cultivation - Current Jhum Shifting Cultivation - Abandoned Jhum Under-utilised/degraded forest (Scrub domin) Under-utilised/degraded forest (Agriculture) Wokha Tuensang Degraded pastures/grazing land Degraded land under plantation crop Sands - Riverine Zunheboto Sands - Coastal Sands - Desertic MYANMAR Sands - Semi Stab:- Stab > 40m Sands - Semi Stab:- Stab 15-40m Mining Wastelands Industrial Wastelands Dimapur Barren Rocky Area Snow Covered/ Glacial Area Phek 10; 15% Non Wasteland Area 3; 23% Water ways Kohima International Boundary 9; 20% State Boundary MANIPUR District Boundary Railways 4; 42% Major Roads

015 0203040 KMs.

Land Use & Cover Monitoring Divn. Nagaland Science & Technology Council Dept. of Land Resources LRUMG,Remote Sensing Application Total Geog. Area (TGA): Source: Wasteland Maps: 2008-09 on 1:50,000 scale, Science & Technology Complex, Min. of Rural Development 16579.00 sq. km. National Remote Sensing Centre Total wasteland area : Three seasons IRS P6 LISS-III data of Kharif(Oct/Nov-2015), Below New Civil Secretariat G - Wing, Nirman Bhawan 5064.17 sq. km. ISRO, Dept. of Space, GOI Wasteland Percentage: Rabi (Jan/Feb-2016) and Zaid (April/May-2016) & Ground truth Kohima – 797 001 GOI, New Delhi - 110 011 30.54 Partner Inst. Executed By

Balanagar, Hyderabad - 500037 Sponsored by NAGALAND Wastelands Area Change Matrix : 2008-09 and 2015-16

PAGE 157 PAGE 158 Note: “--”DenotesthisClassisnotexistingintheDistrict/State Wastelands AreaChanges–2008-09and2015-16 Nagaland Mokokchung Grand Total Zunheboto District Tuensang Dimapur Kohima Wokha Phek Mon WL_Class 2015-16 2008-09 2015-16 2008-09 2015-16 2008-09 2015-16 2008-09 2015-16 2008-09 2015-16 2008-09 2015-16 2008-09 2015-16 2008-09 2015-16 2008-09 Change Change Change Change Change Change Change Change Change 1 ------6. Waterlogged andMarshyland(Seasonal) 5. Waterlogged andMarshyland(Permanent) 4. LandwithOpenScrub 3. LandwithDenseScrub 2. Gulliedand/orravinousland(Deep) 1. Gulliedand/orravinousland(Medium) 2 ------1315.87 884.97 284.72 239.13 106.35 142.01 244.73 449.02 204.29 124.63 118.95 430.90 27.57 72.38 44.81 85.98 85.94 45.59 34.16 72.19 63.06 78.95 10.07 50.78 40.71 3 0.05 5.68 1894.19 2077.72 184.44 187.05 146.56 137.18 129.44 471.14 341.70 355.66 327.36 342.73 353.90 326.85 331.37 155.09 147.36 183.53 -11.17 28.31 26.98 95.25 68.27 -2.61 -4.53 4 9.38 7.73 5 ------2008-09 Wastelands statisticsarerevisedversion. 6 ------12. Under-utilised/degradedforest(Agriculture) 11. Under-utilised/degradedforest(Scrubdomin) 10. ShiftingCultivation- Abandoned Jhum 9. 8. Landaffected bysalinity/alkalinity (Strong) 7. Landaffected bysalinity/alkalinity (Medium) Shifting Cultivation-CurrentJhum 7 ------8 ------1414.53 -435.20 -167.80 -164.55 979.33 140.71 108.99 467.48 635.27 174.37 217.46 239.99 -21.49 -43.09 -52.57 -11.46 31.72 52.68 74.17 48.06 54.02 75.44 14.94 67.51 17.11 -5.96 9 5.65 -221.88 -209.25 681.21 903.09 292.19 270.00 114.05 118.57 327.82 -54.60 -46.42 44.34 89.34 45.01 11.74 18.35 22.18 37.07 91.67 67.63 16.64 47.13 30.49 10.93 17.45 10 -6.52 6.61 11 0.00 0.01 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.01 ------TGA -Total Geographical Area 18. Sands-SemiStab.-Stab>40m 17. Sands-Desertic 16. Sands-Coastal 15. Sands-Riverine 14. Degradedlandunderplantationcrop 13. Degradedpastures/grazingland 12 -0.04 -0.04 1.59 1.63 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.59 1.59 0.00 0.04 ------13 ------14 ------15 ------16 ------23. Snowcovered/Glacialarea 22. BarrenRocky/Stonywaste 21. Industrialwastelands 20. MiningWastelands 19. Sands-SemiStab.-Stab15-40m 17 ------18 ------19 ------20 3.92 0.87 2.42 1.56 0.08 0.08 0.00 0.06 0.19 0.12 0.00 0.14 0.14 0.00 2.09 2.09 1.00 4.92 ------21 ------22 0.00 3.53 3.53 0.00 1.53 1.53 0.00 1.44 1.44 0.00 0.35 0.35 0.00 0.21 0.21 ------23 ------5064.17 5105.86 1519.47 1489.19 1103.60 -133.54 Area insq.km Total 101.02 486.87 385.85 303.58 303.89 548.59 546.68 726.81 764.36 970.06 210.18 209.06 298.61 303.22 -41.69 -37.55 30.28 -0.32 -4.61 1.91 1.12 16579 TGA 1255 1628 4228 2026 1615 3091 1786 950

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