Abstract |
This report presents survey results on agricultural practices such as use of improved seeds, irrigation, application of pesticides and fertilizers within the private peasant sector of the economy. The report consists of three parts where Part I includes the objectives of this annual survey, Part II includes coverage and content of the survey, sample design, field organization, training of field staff, method of data collection and Part III deals with survey estimates of farm inputs applied area as well as the quantities of inputs applied. Estimation procedures and formations for estimates of totals and variance for the agricultural practices and crop areas during the main (“Meher”) season are presented in Appendix I and estimates of the standard errors with the corresponding coefficients of variations (CVs) for farm inputs applied area and quantity of inputs applied are presented in Appendix II. |