Lok Sabha Question No. 125 (STARRED), answered on 2017-07-25
Subject: Survey of Farmers
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: ANUPAM HAZRA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, COOPERATION & FARMERS WELFARE

## LOK  SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 125

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 25 TH  JULY, 2017

## SURVEY OF FARMERS

*125.   DR. ANUPAM HAZRA:

Will  the  Minister  of  AGRICULTURE  AND FARMERS WELFARE कृ ष एवं कसान कयाण ½ãâ¨ããè be pleased to state:

- (a) the number of agricultural families/ households in the country, State/UT-wise;
- (b) whether  the  Government  has  any  scheme  for  door  to  door  survey  of  farmers  for ascertaining their financial condition and the agricultural problems currently being faced by them and if so, the details thereof including the number of farmers who are under the Below Poverty Line (BPL), State/UT-wise;
- (c) the  area  of  agricultural  land  that  has  not  been  provided  with  irrigation  facilities, State/UT-wise; and
- (d) the area of agricultural land that is still being cultivated by obsolete implements like plough and yoke etc. in the country ?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE

कृ ष एवं कसान कयाण ½ãâ¨ããè

(SHRI RADHA MOHAN SINGH)

- (a) to (d): A statement is laid on the Table of the House.

## STATEMENT  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PARTS  (a)  TO  (d)  OF  LOK  SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 125    DUE FOR REPLY ON 25 TH  JULY, 2017.

- (a):       As per the 'Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households' conducted by  National  Sample  Survey  Office  (NSSO)  during  its  70 th round  (January  2013December 2013), rural India is estimated to have 90.2 million agricultural households during  the  agricultural  year  July  2012-June  2013.  State-wise  details  are  given  in Annexure-I.
- (b):      In order to have a comprehensive assessment of the situation of farmers in the country, Government of India conducts Situation Assessment Survey (SAS) of Farmers from time to time. The Survey was last conducted by the NSSO during its 70th Round (January, 2013- December, 2013) to collect information on various aspects of farming and other  socio-economic characteristics  of  agricultural  households,  viz.,  income  and productive assets, consumer expenditure, indebtedness, farming practices and preferences, resource availability, awareness  of  technological  developments  and access to modern technology in the field of agriculture, information on crop loss, crop insurance, etc. Under the survey, the NSSO conducts door to door visit/ survey of the agricultural households covered under the sample frame. The number of farmers who are  under  the  Below  Poverty  Line  (BPL)  are  not  separately  estimated  in  the  survey report.
- (c):        As  per  the  Land-Use  Statistics  2014-15,  about  102  million  hectare  of  the  total cropped area in the country has not been covered with irrigation facilities.  State/ UTwise details of unirrigated area in the country are given in Annexure-II.

(d):          The  information  on  area  of  agricultural  land  being  cultivated  with  obsolete implements  is  not  available.  Government,  however,  conducts  Input  Survey  under  the Agriculture  Census  to  collect  information  on  various  inputs  used  for  agricultural purposes,  viz.,  fertilizers,  manures,  pesticides,  machinery  and  implements,  etc.  The details of estimated number of hand operated and animal drawn implements being used by operational holdings as per Input Survey 2011-12 is given in Annexure-III.

## Annexure-I

## Annexure in reference to Reply to Part (a) of the Lok Sabha Starred Question No. 125 due for reply on 25.07.2017

## Estimated Number of Rural and Agricultural Households as per 'Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households 2013'

| State             |   Estimated Number of Rural Households ('00) |   Estimated Number of Agricultural Households ('00) |   Agricultural Households as percentage of rural households (%) |
|-------------------|----------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
| Andhra Pradesh*   |                                        86763 |                                               35968 |                                                            41.5 |
| Arunachal Pradesh |                                         1659 |                                                1080 |                                                            65.1 |
| Assam             |                                        52494 |                                               34230 |                                                            65.2 |
| Bihar             |                                       140611 |                                               70943 |                                                            50.5 |
| Chhattisgarh      |                                        37472 |                                               25608 |                                                            68.3 |
| Gujarat           |                                        58719 |                                               39305 |                                                            66.9 |
| Haryana           |                                        25849 |                                               15693 |                                                            60.7 |
| Himachal Pradesh  |                                        13251 |                                                8811 |                                                            66.5 |
| Jammu & Kashmir   |                                        13746 |                                               11283 |                                                            82.1 |
| Jharkhand         |                                        37516 |                                               22336 |                                                            59.5 |
| Karnataka         |                                        77430 |                                               42421 |                                                            54.8 |
| Kerala            |                                        51377 |                                               14043 |                                                            27.3 |
| Madhya Pradesh    |                                        84666 |                                               59950 |                                                            70.8 |
| Maharashtra       |                                       125182 |                                               70970 |                                                            56.7 |
| Manipur           |                                         2584 |                                                1762 |                                                            68.2 |
| Meghalaya         |                                         4721 |                                                3544 |                                                            75.1 |
| Mizoram           |                                          936 |                                                 758 |                                                            81   |
| Nagaland          |                                         4128 |                                                2621 |                                                            63.5 |
| Odisha            |                                        78120 |                                               44935 |                                                            57.5 |
| Punjab            |                                        27552 |                                               14083 |                                                            51.1 |
| Rajasthan         |                                        82722 |                                               64835 |                                                            78.4 |
| Sikkim            |                                         1150 |                                                 674 |                                                            58.6 |
| Tamil Nadu        |                                        93607 |                                               32443 |                                                            34.7 |
| Telangana*        |                                        49309 |                                               25389 |                                                            51.5 |
| Tripura           |                                         6635 |                                                2445 |                                                            36.9 |
| Uttar Pradesh     |                                       241328 |                                              180486 |                                                            74.8 |
| Uttranchal        |                                        16498 |                                               10608 |                                                            64.3 |
| West Bengal       |                                       141359 |                                               63624 |                                                            45   |
| UTs               |                                         2394 |                                                 718 |                                                            30   |
| All India         |                                      1561442 |                                              902011 |                                                            57.8 |

Source: National Sample Survey Office (NSSO)

* Separate estimates for the newly formed States of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are provided in place of erstwhile State of Andhra Pradesh

## Annexure-II

## Annexure in reference to Reply to Part (c) of the Lok Sabha Starred Question  No. 125 due for reply on 25.07.2017

## State-wise Total Cropped Area and Gross Unirrigated Area for the year 2014-15

(Thousand Hectares)

| States/UTs                |   Total Cropped area |   Gross Unirrigated Area |
|---------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------|
| Andhra Pradesh            |                 7690 |                     3804 |
| Arunachal Pradesh         |                  299 |                      243 |
| Assam                     |                 4083 |                     3709 |
| Bihar                     |                 7673 |                     2405 |
| Chhattisgarh              |                 5728 |                     3941 |
| Goa                       |                  158 |                      119 |
| Gujarat                   |                12773 |                     6759 |
| Haryana                   |                 6536 |                      711 |
| Himachal Pradesh          |                  918 |                      725 |
| Jammu & Kashmir           |                 1178 |                      673 |
| Jharkhand                 |                 1554 |                     1332 |
| Karnataka                 |                12247 |                     8060 |
| Kerala                    |                 2625 |                     2155 |
| Madhya Pradesh            |                23810 |                    13509 |
| Maharashtra               |                23474 |                    19192 |
| Manipur                   |                  383 |                      314 |
| Meghalaya                 |                  343 |                      216 |
| Mizoram                   |                  145 |                      124 |
| Nagaland                  |                  500 |                      394 |
| Orissa                    |                 5173 |                     3688 |
| Punjab                    |                 7857 |                      100 |
| Rajasthan                 |                24235 |                    14065 |
| Sikkim                    |                  136 |                      124 |
| Tamil Nadu                |                 5995 |                     2600 |
| Telangana                 |                 5315 |                     2786 |
| Tripura                   |                  483 |                      368 |
| Uttarakhand               |                 1097 |                      554 |
| Uttar Pradesh             |                26147 |                     5182 |
| West Bengal               |                 9690 |                     3990 |
| Andaman & Nicobar islands |                   24 |                       23 |
| Chandigarh                |                    2 |                        2 |
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli      |                   23 |                       16 |
| Daman & Diu               |                    3 |                        3 |
| Delhi                     |                   35 |                        6 |
| Lakshadweep               |                    3 |                        3 |
| Pondicherry               |                   27 |                        5 |
| All India                 |               198360 |                   101902 |

Source: Land-Use Statistics, Directorate of Economics & Statistics, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.

## Annexure-III

## Annexure in reference to Reply to Part (d) of the Lok Sabha Starred Question No. 125 due for reply on 25.07.2017

## Estimated Number of Hand Operated & Animal Drawn Implements used by Operational Holdings as per Input Survey 2011-12

| S. No.                     | Type of Implements               | Estimated Number of Implements (in Million)   |                            |
|----------------------------|----------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|----------------------------|
| 1                          | Hand operated Implements         | 297.15                                        |                            |
| Animal operated Implements | Animal operated Implements       | Animal operated Implements                    | Animal operated Implements |
| 2                          | Wooden Plough                    | 54.96                                         |                            |
| 3                          | Mould Board Plough               | 24.27                                         |                            |
| 4                          | Other Animal operated Implements | 103.33                                        |                            |

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