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The contribution of agriculture in employing India's male workforce decreased from 75.9% in 1961 to 60% in 1999–2000. [82] Dev (2006) holds that 'there were about 45 million agricultural labor households in the country in 1999–2000.' [83] These households recorded the highest incidence of poverty in India from 1993 to 2000. [84]
Countries that conducted an agricultural census during the WCA 2010 round (2006–2015) [1] A census of agriculture is a statistical operation for collecting, processing and disseminating data on the structure of agriculture, covering the whole or a significant part of a country. Typical structural data collected in a census of agriculture are ...
Worldwide employment In agriculture, forestry and fishing in 2021. India has one of the highest number of people employed in these sectors. As per the 2014 FAO world agriculture statistics India is the world's largest producer of many fresh fruits like banana, mango, guava, papaya, lemon and vegetables like chickpea, okra and milk, major spices like chili pepper, ginger, fibrous crops such as ...
The Ministry publishes an annual report titled "Agricultural Statistics at a Glance". This gives a detailed picture of the state of India's agriculture including demographics of the agrarian sector, crop production (including state-wise and crop-wise break-ups), rural economic indicators such as credit, etc.
Indian economic census is the census of the Indian economy through counting all entrepreneurial units in the country which are involved in any economic activities of either agricultural or non-agricultural sector which engaged in production and/or distribution of goods and/or services not for the sole purpose of own consumption.
Plantation agriculture involves a large farm or estate usually in a tropical or sub-tropical country where crops are grown for sale in distant markets rather than local consumption. [ 6 ] Commercial grain farming is a response to farm mechanization and it is the major type of activity in the areas of low rainfall and low density of population ...
[52] [53] For the first time, a "No religion" category was added in the 2011 census. [54] 2.87 million were classified as people belonging to "No Religion" in India in the 2011 census [55] [56] 0.24% of India's population of 1.21 billion. [57] [58] Given below is the decade-by-decade religious composition of India until the 2011 census.
The decennial census of India has been conducted 15 times, as of 2011. While it has been undertaken every 10 years, beginning in 1872 under Viceroy Lord Mayo, the first complete census was taken in 1872. [1] Post 1949, it has been conducted by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government ...