The agriculture Census in India is conducted at an interval of

🔑 Key Points
→ Agriculture Census forms part of a broader system of collection of Agricultural Statistics.
→ It is a large-scale statistical operation for the collection and derivation of quantitative information about the structure of agriculture.
→ Agricultural Census is the main source of information on a variety of agricultural parameters at a relatively minute level.
→ Through Agriculture Census, it is endeavoured to collect basic data on important aspects of the agricultural economy for all the operational holdings in the country.

🌾 Key Data Collected
→ Number and area of operational holdings
→ Farm size
→ Class-wise distribution
→ Land use
→ Tenancy
→ Cropping pattern
→ Use of fertilizers, insecticides, etc.

📌 Important Points
→ The Agriculture Census in India is conducted at an interval of five years, following broad guidelines of the decennial World Census of Agriculture (WCA) evolved by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
→ The entire Census operation is conducted in three phases.
→ Operational holding is taken as a statistical unit at the micro level for data collection.
→ The aggregation of data is done at various levels of administrative units.
→ India's first ever comprehensive Agricultural Census was carried out with the agricultural year 1970-71 as the reference.