Lok Sabha Question No. 2716 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-07-09
Subject: Online Registration of Farmers
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMER S WELFAR E DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, COOPERATION AND FARMER S WELFARE

LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.2716

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE  9 TH J U L Y , 2019

## ONLINE REGISTRATION OF FARMERS

2716. SH RI BHANU PRATAP SINGH VERMA:

Will the Minister of AG RIC U L TU R E AND FA RME R S WE L FA R E कृ ष एवं कसान कयाण मंी be pleased to state:

- (a) the total number of farmers in the country, State-wise;
- (b) the number of farmers for whom online registration has been completed in various States of the country including Uttar Pradesh; and
- (c) the time by which registration of the rest of the farmers are likely to be completed?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMER S WELFAR E

कृ ष एवं कसान कयाण मंी (  S H RI NAR E N D R A  SIN G H  T OMA R)

- (a): The Agriculture Census 2015-16 contain figures of farmers in  the country in  the form of operational holding, which is defined as, 'all  land which is used wholly or partly  for agricultural production and is operated as one technical unit by one person alone or with others without regard to the title, legal form, size or location'. Accordingly, a statement giving State/UT-wise number of operational holdings in the country is laid on the table of the House.
- (b): There  is  no  provision  or  scheme  for  any  online  registration  of  farmers  in  the  Central Government.
- (c): Does not arise.

## STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NUMBER 2716 DUE FOR ANSWER ON 09.07.2019

## Number of operational holdings as per Agriculture Census 2015-16 (provisional)

| Sl. No.   | States/UTs       |   Number in ('000) |
|-----------|------------------|--------------------|
| 1         | A&NIslands       |                 12 |
| 2         | AndhraPradesh    |               8524 |
| 3         | ArunachalPradesh |                113 |
| 4         | Assam            |               2742 |
| 5         | Bihar            |              16413 |
| 6         | Chandigarh       |                  1 |
| 7         | Chhattisgarh     |               3960 |
| 8         | D&NHaveli        |                 15 |
| 9         | Daman &Diu       |                  8 |
| 10        | Delhi            |                 21 |
| 11        | Goa              |                 56 |
| 12        | Gujarat          |               5320 |
| 13        | Haryana          |               1628 |
| 14        | HimachalPradesh  |                996 |
| 15        | Jammu &Kashmir   |               1417 |
| 16        | Jharkhand        |               2732 |
| 17        | Karnataka        |               8677 |
| 18        | Kerala           |               7583 |
| 19        | Lakshadweep      |                 10 |
| 20        | MadhyaPradesh    |              10003 |
| 21        | Maharashtra      |              14707 |
| 22        | Manipur          |                150 |
| 23        | Meghalaya        |                232 |
| 24        | Mizoram          |                 90 |
| 25        | Nagaland         |                197 |
| 26        | Odisha           |               4866 |
| 27        | Puducherry       |                 34 |
| 28        | Punjab           |               1093 |
| 29        | Rajasthan        |               7655 |
| 30        | Sikkim           |                 68 |
| 31        | Tamil Nadu       |               7938 |
| 32        | Telangana        |               5948 |
| 33        | Tripura          |                573 |
| 34        | UttarPradesh     |              23822 |
| 35        | Uttarakhand      |                881 |
| 36        | WestBengal       |               7243 |
| TOTAL     |                  |             145727 |

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