Appendix 7 : Estimated number of Farmer Households and Area of Land Used for Poultry and Duckery
  Khariff Season Rabi Season
  Estimated Number of Farmer Land Under Agricultural Activity Estimated Number of  Land Under Agricultural Activity
  Households in ( ' 00) (' 00 hectares) Farmer Households (' 00 hectares)
State/Region Total Reporting Total Used for Total Reporting Total Used for  
  Poultry &   Poultry &   Poultry &   Poultry &  
  Duckery   Duckery   Duckery   Duckery  
                       
Northern Region 109460 1839 (1.7) 170052 5.86 (0.00) 2142 (2.0) 119490 6.31 (0.01)
Haryana 19445 96 (0.5) 23860 0.12 (0.00) 107 (0.6) 22404 0.13 (0.00)
Himachal Pradesh 9061 33 (0.4) 6596 0.05 (0.00) 56 (0.6) 6256 0.07 (0.00)
Jammu & Kashmir 9432 1231 (13.1) 6593 4.75 (0.07) 1436 (15.2) 6387 5.22 (0.08)
Punjab 18442 103 (0.6) 24803 0.36 (0.00) 68 (0.4) 24271 0.16 (0.00)
Rajasthan 53080 376 (0.7) 108200 0.58 (0.00) 475 (0.9) 60172 0.73 (0.00)
North-Eastern Region 34874 7605 (21.8) 28971 36.83 (0.13) 8469 (24.3) 17632 38.39 (0.22)
Arunachal Pradesh 1227 85 (6.9) 1601 2.37 (0.15) 82 (6.7) 1280 2.79 (0.22)
Assam 25040 5876 (23.5) 21063 19.48 (0.09) 6732 (26.9) 12136 20.60 (0.17)
Manipur 2146 499 (23.3) 1291 6.07 (0.47) 519 (24.2) 284 5.94 (2.09)
Meghalaya 2543 239 (9.4) 2535 0.91 (0.04) 191 (7.5) 2057 0.84 (0.04)
Mizoram 780 170 (21.8) 853 5.60 (0.66) 181 (23.2) 864 5.81 (0.67)
Nagaland 805 279 (34.7) 567 0.50 (0.09) 219 (27.2) 566 0.43 (0.08)
Tripura 2333 457 (19.6) 1061 1.90 (0.18) 545 (23.4) 445 1.98 (0.44)
Eastern Region 211140 6948 (3.3) 131216 23.81 (0.02) 6603 (3.1) 93339 24.22 (0.03)
Bihar  70804 484 (0.7) 45094 0.94 (0.00) 570 (0.8) 43397 0.83 (0.00)
Jharkhand 28238 650 (2.3) 19084 2.19 (0.01) 620 (2.2) 8106 1.84 (0.02)
Orissa 42341 1443 (3.4) 33032 2.49 (0.01) 1523 (3.6) 15817 2.63 (0.02)
Sikkim 531 80 (15.1) 355 0.14 (0.04) 76 (14.3) 188 0.15 (0.08)
West bengal 69226 4291 (6.2) 33651 18.05 (0.05) 3814 (5.5) 25831 18.77 (0.07)
Central Region 271341 2054 (0.8) 268122 4.85 (0.00) 2021 (0.7) 244611 3.48 (0.00)
Chattisgarh 27598 257 (0.9) 36244 1.24 (0.00) 272 (1.0) 17605 0.49 (0.00)
Madhya Pradesh 63206 354 (0.6) 104943 0.56 (0.00) 177 (0.3) 99593 0.29 (0.00)
Uttar Pradesh  171575 1267 (0.7) 122579 2.34 (0.00) 1462 (0.9) 123372 2.31 (0.00)
Uttranchal 8962 176 (2.0) 4356 0.71 (0.02) 110 (1.2) 4041 0.39 (0.01)
Western Region 103662 2177 (2.1) 166843 3.67 (0.00) 1904 (1.8) 85368 3.29 (0.00)
Gujarat 37845 300 (0.8) 57083 0.40 (0.00) 453 (1.2) 37532 0.55 (0.00)
Maharashtra 65817 1877 (2.9) 109760 3.27 (0.00) 1451 (2.2) 47836 2.74 (0.01)
Southern Region 161578 7545 (4.7) 170557 34.52 (0.02) 8606 (5.3) 96838 36.14 (0.04)
Andhra Pradesh 60339 1274 (2.1) 69306 6.26 (0.01) 1332 (2.2) 31671 6.77 (0.02)
Karnataka 40413 649 (1.6) 62434 6.13 (0.01) 892 (2.2) 37516 6.47 (0.02)
Kerala 21946 2838 (12.9) 9217 13.41 (0.15) 3506 (16.0) 8662 14.15 (0.16)
Tamil Nadu 38880 2784 (7.2) 29600 8.72 (0.03) 2876 (7.4) 18989 8.75 (0.05)
Uts 732 59 (8.1) 483 0.10 (0.02) 66 (9.0) 318 0.10 (0.03)
All India 893504 28231 (3.2) 936610 110.01 (0.01) 29814 (3.3) 657953 112.07 (0.02)
Note: Figures in brackets are percentages to total households/area under agricultural activities
This table is prepared from table 9 and 10 published in the source.
Source: NSSO (2005), Some Aspects of Farming, 59 th Round (Jan-Dec 2003), Report No 496 (59/33/3).