North eastern coastal plain

  • Balasore, Bhadrak and Jajpur comes under North central plateau agro-climatic zone. The zone experiences hot and moistsub humid climate with mean annual rainfall of 1568mm, having mean maximum summer temperature of 36.00 C and mean minimum winter temperature of 14.80 C. 
  • Board soil groups of the region are red, lateritic, deltaic alluvial, coastal alluvial, saline red, yellow and mixed red and black. Subernarekha, Budhabalanga and Baitarani river basin covers majority of agricultural lands of the region. Irrigation ratio of the region is comparatively better than other regions of Odisha i.e. 60.7%. Land types varies from upland to deep water rice ecologies.