North western plateau
- Sundargarh and Deogarh districts comes under North western plateau agro- climatic zone. The zone experiences hot and moist sub-humid climate with mean annual rainfall of 1648mm, having mean maximum summer temperature of 38.0 0C and mean minimum winter temperature of 15 .0 0C.
- Red, brown forest, red
and yellow, mixed red and black soil group are predominant in the region.
Brahmani and Baitarani river basins influences the agriculture and human
civilization of the agro-climatic zone. Irrigation ratio of the region is
30.4%. The land type varies from
unbunded upland to shallow lowland.