The Agriculture Census in India is conducted at an interval of

🔑 Key Points
🌾 Agriculture Census
→ The Agriculture Census forms part of a broader system for collecting Agricultural Statistics.
→ It is a large-scale statistical operation for collecting and deriving quantitative information about the structure of agriculture.
→ The Agricultural Census is the main source of information on various agricultural parameters at a relatively minute level.
→ The Census aims to collect basic data on important aspects of the agricultural economy for all operational holdings in the country.
→ It collects data on:
· Number and area of operational holdings
· Farm size
· Class-wise distribution
· Land use
· Tenancy
· Cropping pattern
· Use of fertilizers, insecticides, etc.
→ The Agricultural Census in India is conducted every five years, following the broad guidelines of the decennial World Census of Agriculture (WCA) evolved by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
→ The Census operation is conducted in three phases.
→ The operational holding is taken as a statistical unit at the micro level for data collection.
→ Data aggregation is done at various levels of administrative units.
→ India's first comprehensive Agricultural Census was carried out with the agricultural year 1970-71 as the reference.