11th Agricultural Census 2021-22

On 28th July 2022, the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare launched the eleventh agricultural census. The fieldwork of the Eleventh Agricultural Census (2021-22) was started in August 2022. In the 11th Census, for the first time, data collection will be conducted on smartphones and tablets so that data is available in time.

About Agriculture Census: Agriculture Census in India has been conducting following broad guidelines of decennial World Census of Agriculture (WCA) evolved by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of United Nations.

  • The Ministry of Agriculture is implementing an agriculture census scheme from 1970-71.
  • It is conducted every 5 years.
  • The tenth edition of the census was conducted with the reference year 2015-16.

Benefits: The agricultural census is the main source of information on a variety of parameters, such as the number and area of operational holdings, their size, class-wise distribution, land use, tenancy and cropping pattern, etc.

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