Abstract
Bhabinarayanpur — an agriculture-based village on the east coast of India — was studied as an ecosystem during 1985–1987. The village ecosystem comprises 125 ha of land with 98 households. Land-use patterns showed utilization of 94% of total land for agriculture; the products were mainly paddy (rice), ragi (millet), pulses (legume seeds) and oil-seeds. Quantitative data on biomass components comprising both animals (humans, cattle and birds) and plants (agriculture crop, grassland and plantations) of the ecosystem were described. Above-ground biomass productivity, its consumption pattern by human beings and livestock, and its imports and exports, along with non-biomass sources in the ecosystem, were studied.
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