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It plays a vital role and lays down the foundation for economic development and growth in this country. Agriculture contributes more than 21 per cent to the Gross Domestic Product GDP and provides employment to 45 per cent of the total labour force of the country.

It provides raw material to the industrial sector on one side and is a market of industrial products on the other side. In the export earnings, direct as well as indirect share of agriculture is very high.

Thus, it is prudent to construe that agriculture plays a multidimensional role in the economy of Pakistan. Therefore, development of agriculture is synonymous to the development of the country.

The availability of timely, accurate and reliable data is precondition for sound agricultural planning and development. The data from the Agricultural Census thus provide a concrete basis from which the agriculture sector can ultimately develop through evidence-based policy designing. The Agricultural Census Organization ACO has conducted five Agricultural Censuses in Pakistan: The present report is the sixth one in the series.

The defunct now Agricultural Census Act, Act No. XLI of provided the legal basis for census operations throughout the country. The Act made it binding on the Government of Pakistan for the collection of agricultural data and also on the respondents to cooperate with the census enumerators and to furnish information on or with respect to items specified in the said Act.

At the same time, the Act assured the secrecy of the information supplied by the respondents.

It also bound the interviewer and interviewee not to declare or use this information for any legal proceedings. The census taking exercise was guided by an Advisory Committee. This committee is comprised of about 50 official and non-official members drawn from the concerned Federal and Provincial Government Departments, Universities, Research Institutes, while non-official members come from the progressive farmers.

As per previous practice and approved procedures, the Agricultural Census was sample based. The sample design, however, varied for different regions of the country in accordance with the ground realities.

This census covered the entire country, i.

Consequently, the undistributed government lands other than government farms, undistributed portion of the lands resumed by the Government under land reforms, built up areas, land under roads, rails, ravines, rivers, canals, government forests, parks, lakes, water bodies, shallow lands, hills and mountains, etc.

The scope of the present census, as finally approved, included the collection of data on type, size, tenure and parcels of farms, land utilization, irrigation, area under crops and orchards, number of fruit and non-fruit trees, use of manures, fertilizers and plant protection measures, use of agricultural machinery, livestock population, loan and its sources, casual and permanent hired agricultural labour, household members by age, sex, qualification and their contribution towards agriculture, type of residential structures, economic activities of household members and their main source of income.

Search form Search this site. Objectives The Agricultural Census was undertaken to fulfil the following objectives: To generate basic information on the structure of agriculture. To develop detailed basic information about the agricultural resources, state of their utilization and to find out the degree of acceptability of modern farming practices among the farming community for the purpose of regional, provincial and national development, planning and research in the field of agriculture.

To collect information about livestock population. Legal Basis The defunct now Agricultural Census Act, Act No. Advisory Committee The census taking exercise was guided by an Advisory Committee. Type and Geographical Coverage As per previous practice and approved procedures, the Agricultural Census was sample based.

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Maize for Grain Area Irrigated and Unirrigated and Farms Reporting Maize by Size of Farm. Sugarcane Area Irrigated and Unirrigated and Farms Reporting Sugarcane by Size of Farm.

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Oil-Seeds Area Irrigated and Unirrigated and Farms Reporting Oil-Seeds by Size of Farm. Vegetables Including Potatoes Area Irrigated and Unirrigated and Farms Reporting Vegetables by Size of Farm.

Farms Reporting Use of Fertilizers and Manures on Tobacco, Potatoes, Onions, Sunflower, Orchards, Vegetables and Other Crops.

Family Members 10 Years and above Usually Engaged in Agricultural Work on their Holdings by Type of Household.

Family Members 10 Years and Above In Hundreds by Activity and by Type of Household. Permanent and Casual Agricultural Labour Engaged in Agricultural Work by Type of Household. All Farms Reporting Use of Tractors, Draught Animals or Both for Cultivation by Size of Farm.

Owner Farms Reporting Use of Tractors, Draught Animals or Both for Cultivation by Size of Farm. Owner-cum-Tenant Farms Reporting Use of Tractors, Draught Animals or Both for Cultivation by Size of Farm.

Tenant Farms Reporting Use of Tractors, Draught Animals or Both for Cultivation by Size of Farm. Number of Households Reporting Residential Houses by Type of Occupancy and Structure and by Tenure. Households In Hundreds Reporting Sources of Income Other Than Farming and Basic Source of Income by Type of Household.

Number of Farm Households Reporting Residential Houses by Type of occupancy and Structure and by Size of Farm.