PANJIM: The first phase of paperless agriculture census will commence from Thursday across 426 villages. State’s first ever digital census will be held in three phases for the next one and half year.
This will be the 11th Census with reference year 2021-22 (July 2021 to June 2022) which was delayed due to the pandemic.
According to the Directorate of Planning, Statistics and Evaluation (DPSE)- the nodal agency- in the first phase, data on primary characteristics of operational holdings of owners or holders and area operated by operational holders classified by way of social group, gender, tenancy status, types of holding, etc will be collected.
The first phase of data collection will go on till March. In this census, the entire process of collecting and collating census data will be through an Android-based mobile app.
Director DPSE Vijay Saxena said that the use of digitized land records and the use of mobile apps for data collection will enable the creation of a database of operational holdings in the State. He said that the first phase of the census will commence from January 5 and go on till March, 2023.
“In the current agriculture census, the number of operational holdings and area operated is expected to increase as the current government has been vigorously providing various agriculture related schemes to farmers,” he said.
The total number of operational holdings and area operated recorded during previous census 2015-16, were 74,563 numbers and 82,085 hectare, respectively.
