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Central Sector Scheme Agriculture Census

        The Govt. of India with the cooperation of States and Union Territory has been conducting Agricultural census in the country at five yearly intervals regularly since 1970-71,as a part of World Census of Agriculture undertaken by FAO of United Nation. This census provide valuable information about changing structure of Indian Agriculture, which is the backbone of Indian Economy.

         The Agriculture Census in India relies heavily on system of land records prevalent in large part of the country. In the non-land record state, the census data are collected through sample surveys. However in the case of U.T.of Lakshadweep; being group of islands and small in size, updated and comprehensive land records are not available, the Govt.of India always decide to conduct the census collecting information in all islands covering 100 % holding in every island / village through enquiry method.

         The latest in the series is the Seventh Agriculture Census with reference year 2000-2001 which is followed by an input survey 2001-2002 

The whole project of agricultural census is implemented in three distinct phases, which are statistically link together but focus on different aspects of agricultural statistics.  In phase-I a list of holdings with their area and social characteristics of the holders is prepared. In Phase-II detailed data on agricultural characteristics of holdings are collected from all islands.  In Phase-III.  data on input use pattern are collected from selected holdings in all islands.

         During phase-I viz; the listing phase, data on number and area of operational holdings according to prescribed size classes for different social groups and sex will be collected. During this Phase of census, data on basic agricultural infrastructure available in the islands is also proposed to be collected this year.  In Phase-II, which is the main census operation, the data on following five aspects will be collected.

i.        Dispersal of holdings.

ii.      Tenancy.

iii.     Land Utilization

iv.    Irrigation status and source wise area irrigated.

v.      Cropping pattern.

             By now the Census operation ie. Phase I & II of 7^th Agriculture Census has been completed in all the islands. Scrutiny and checking of Schedules at field level have been completed and data entry for generation of Table-1 is in progress.

Agricultural Operational Holdings in Lakshadweep

Table-1

Table -2

Size Calss	Agriculture Census 1990-1991			Agriculture Census 1995-1996
	Total Operational holdings     (Nos)	% age	Cumulative % age    distribution	Total Operational holdings     (Nos)	% age	Cumulative % age    distribution
below 0.5 ha	4475	71.99	71.99	8632	92.16	92.16
05 to 1.0	1197	19.26	91.25	517	5.52	97.68
1.0 to 2.0	369	5.94	97.18	136	1.45	99.13
2.0 to 3.0	94	1.5	98.70	46	0.49	99.62
3.0 to 4.0	39	0.63	99.32	13	0.14	99.76
4.0 to 5.0	24	0.39	99.71	9	0.10	99.86
5.0 to 10.0	16	0.26	99.97	13	0.14	100
10.0 & above	2	0.03	100	0	0.00
Total	6216	100		9366	100

Table-3

Size Calss	Agriculture Census 1990-1991		Agriculture Census 1995-1996
	Operational holdings     (Nos)	Area Operated  (Ha)	Operational holdings     (Nos)	Area Operated  (Ha)
below 0.5 ha	4475	800	8632	1777
05 to 1.0	1197	773	517	345
1.0 to 2.0	369	489	136	172
2.0 to 3.0	94	216	46	108
3.0 to 4.0	39	128	13	43
4.0 to 5.0	24	101	9	37
5.0 to 10.0	18	143	13	97
10.0 & above	6216	2650	0	0
Total	12432	5300	9366	2579

Table-4

Size Calss	Agriculture Census 1990-1991						Agriculture Census 1995-1996
	wholly owned & Self Operated		wholly owned & Partly Operated		wholly rented from   others		wholly owned & Self Operated		wholly owned & Partly Operated		wholly rented from   others
	No	Area	No	Area	No	Area	No	Area	No	Area	No	Area
below 0.5 ha	4475	800	0	0	0	0	8632	1777	0	0	0	0
05 to 1.0	1197	773	0	0	0	0	517	345	0	0	0	0
1.0 to 2.0	369	489	0	0	0	0	136	172	0	0	0	0
2.0 to 3.0	94	216	0	0	0	0	46	108	0	0	0	0
3.0 to 4.0	39	128	0	0	0	0	13	43	0	0	0	0
4.0 to 5.0	24	101	0	0	0	0	9	37	0	0	0	0
5.0 to 10.0	18	143	0	0	0	0	13	97	0	0	0	0
10.0 & above	6216	2650	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
All Size Class	12432	5300	0	0	0	0	9366	2579	0	0	0	0