Farm census to be held in Alappuzha in July

The Economics and Statistics Department will undertake a census on agriculture in the district next month as part of a national programme.

Officials of the Department will collect data from households. The census will be carried out in select wards in each grama panchayat or municipality.

Investigators of the department will visit households and collect information such as extent of agricultural land in possession, utility of land, ownership, crop distribution, irrigation, usage of fertilizers and pesticides, farm implements and cattle. The national farm census is conducted every five years.

A district-level training session for the officials of the department will be held here on June 24. District panchayat president G.Venugopal will inaugurate it.