Western central tableland

Bolangir, Baragada, Boudh, Sonepur, Sambalpur and Jharsuguda districts of Odisha comes under Western central table land agro climatic zone. The zone experiences hot and moist climate with mean annual rainfall of 1527 mm, having mean maximum summer temperature of 40.0⁰C and mean minimum winter temperature of 12.4 ⁰C.
Mahanadi and Brahmani river basin mostly influences the agriculture production systems of the agro-climatic zone. Board soil groups of the region are red and yellow, red and black, black, brown forest and lateritic. Irrigation ratio of the region is 38.8%. Land types varies from uplands to shallow low land.