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Land Ownership by Sample Farmers
1.4 The land ownership pattern of KCC farmers is presented in Table - 3.2 below.
Table- 3.2: Ownership of Agricultural Land
Sl States Districts
Sam-
ple
size
Avg land
holding-Ac
Farmers
leased out
Farmers leased
in
Farmers owning
farm asset
Total
hold
Irri-
gated
land
No
Avg
area-
Ac
No
Avg
area-
Ac
Tractor Pump
set
1
Assam
Jorhat
54 2.82 0.96 0 0.00 0 0.00 2
19
Darrang
50 2.32 1.28 0 0.00 1 2.25 5
7
2
Bihar
Gaya
57 3.91 3.04 3 0.67 8 1.36 7
17
Begusarai
63 5.14 4.15 9 1.23 9
2.2 10
46
3
U. P.
Var/ Bij
60 3.53 3.04 1 3.00 4 1.25 15
38
Moradabad 64 3.28 2.3 2 1.71 3 1.53 27
50
4
Punjab
Kapurthala 60 10.42 9.23 6 9.75 27 12.5 49
57
Bathinda 60 8.78 8.25 7 8.36 26 12.98 30
39
5
Maha
Akola
60 6.05 0.5 2 9.00 0 0.00 11
10
Sindhudurg 59 4.90 1.32 0
0
1
1.0
1
3
6
Kar
Dakshin
Kannada 60 4.37 1.58 0 0.00 1 1.72 5
52
Bellary
67 6.27 4.11 2 4.37 0 0.00 15
28
Total sample/Average
(% of total sample)
714 5.21 3.37 32
(4.5%) 3.26 80
(11.2%) 3.07 177
(24.8%)
366
(51.3%)
3.5 The average size of holding across the sample came to 5.21 acres of which about
64 percent was irrigated. About 4.5 percent of sample farmers had leased out
some portion or their entire holding on account of their engagement in other
occupation service/ business or their absenteeism from the location. As many as
80 farmers (11.2% of the sample) were reported to have leased-in some additional
land either to make optimum use of resources available with him or to meet out
their consumption needs. Quite a good number of sample farmers (25%) owned
tractors. Pump set is another important farm asset which was owned by about
51 per cent of the sample farmers.
Sources of Income: Sample Farmers
3.6 The average income per farmer per annum (Table 3.3) across the total sample
came to Rs. 213687 and was varying between Rs. 68180 (Darrang, Assam) to Rs.
585671 (Kapurthala, Punjab). Cultivation (66.7% of total income) was reported
as the major source of income of farmers selected for the study. Income from
livestock farming accounted for 9.9 per cent of total income of the farmers. Other
sources (other than farming, livestock, wage employment, service & Business)
accounted for about 11.3 per cent of family income of the farmers. Other sources
included self-employment activities viz., remittances from foreign,
Aadatia
,
tailoring, etc.
