KOZHIKODE: The Economics and Statistics Wing will launch its field-level activities for the 10th agricultural census in the district from the first week of July with a mission to prepare a comprehensive and updated record of the total area under cultivation, types of crops cultivated, details of farmers, and the concerns they encounter.
A district-level coordination committee chaired by District Collector N. Prasanth has been formed to supervise the three-phase survey, which will be conducted with the direct support of the Agriculture Department and the Panchayat Directorate.
In the first phase, the enumerators will gather the details of farmers and the landholders for the preparation of an updated registry. The second phase will focus on collecting details of the crops cultivated in each area and the facilities provided for irrigation. The final phase will seek to identify the additional needs of farmers to sustain and prosper in the sector.
Social strata of farmers
According to census coordinators, identifying the social strata of the farmers and finding their response to various farm mechanisation drives too are part of the project.
Similarly, the project will record the details of agricultural holdings of various institutions. Agriculture Department officials said the survey procedures were finalised as per the directions of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations.
“The data collected will be helpful for the formation of a favourable agriculture policy for the nation,” they added.
To ensure cent per cent accuracy in the details gathered, the Economics and Statistics Wing will take help from the Departments of Forest and Land Records.
The coordination committee includes the Principal Agriculture Officer, Divisional Forest Officer and the secretaries of various local self-government institutions in the district.
District-level coordination committee chaired by Collector formed Field work for agricultural census to begin next month
