Appendix 8 : Estimated number of Farmer Households and Area of Land Used for Bee Keeping
  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  
  Bee-   Bee-   Bee-   Bee-  
  Keeping   Keeping   Keeping   Keeping  
                       
Northern Region 109460 7 (0.0) 170052 0.05 (0.00) 4 (0.0) 119490 0.04 (0.00)
Haryana 19445 0 (0.0) 23860 0.00 (0.00) 0 (0.0) 22404 0.00 (0.00)
Himachal Pradesh 9061 3 (0.0) 6596 0.01 (0.00) 0 (0.0) 6256 0.00 (0.00)
Jammu & Kashmir 9432 0 (0.0) 6593 0.00 (0.00) 0 (0.0) 6387 0.00 (0.00)
Punjab 18442 4 (0.0) 24803 0.04 (0.00) 4 (0.0) 24271 0.04 (0.00)
Rajasthan 53080 0 (0.0) 108200 0.00 (0.00) 0 (0.0) 60172 0.00 (0.00)
North-Eastern Region 34874 55 (0.2) 28971 0.54 (0.00) 55 (0.2) 17632 0.55 (0.00)
Arunachal Pradesh 1227 0 (0.0) 1601 0.00 (0.00) 0 (0.0) 1280 0.00 (0.00)
Assam 25040 24 (0.1) 21063 0.51 (0.00) 24 (0.1) 12136 0.51 (0.00)
Manipur 2146 0 (0.0) 1291 0.00 (0.00) 0 (0.0) 284 0.00 (0.00)
Meghalaya 2543 30 (1.2) 2535 0.03 (0.00) 24 (0.9) 2057 0.02 (0.00)
Mizoram 780 0 (0.0) 853 0.00 (0.00) 0 (0.0) 864 0.00 (0.00)
Nagaland 805 1 (0.1) 567 0.00 (0.00) 0 (0.0) 566 0.00 (0.00)
Tripura 2333 0 (0.0) 1061 0.00 (0.00) 7 (0.3) 445 0.02 (0.00)
Eastern Region 211140 10 (0.0) 131216 0.40 (0.00) 16 (0.0) 93339 0.64 (0.00)
Bihar  70804 0 (0.0) 45094 0.00 (0.00) 0 (0.0) 43397 0.00 (0.00)
Jharkhand 28238 0 (0.0) 19084 0.00 (0.00) 0 (0.0) 8106 0.00 (0.00)
Orissa 42341 0 (0.0) 33032 0.00 (0.00) 0 (0.0) 15817 0.00 (0.00)
Sikkim 531 0 (0.0) 355 0.00 (0.00) 0 (0.0) 188 0.00 (0.00)
West bengal 69226 10 (0.0) 33651 0.40 (0.00) 16 (0.0) 25831 0.64 (0.00)
Central Region 271341 42 (0.0) 268122 17.90 (0.01) 0 (0.0) 244611 0.00 (0.00)
Chattisgarh 27598 0 (0.0) 36244 0.00 (0.00) 0 (0.0) 17605 0.00 (0.00)
Madhya Pradesh 63206 38 (0.1) 104943 17.08 (0.02) 0 (0.0) 99593 0.00 (0.00)
Uttar Pradesh  171575 4 (0.0) 122579 0.82 (0.00) 0 (0.0) 123372 0.00 (0.00)
Uttranchal 8962 0 (0.0) 4356 0.00 (0.00) 0 (0.0) 4041 0.00 (0.00)
Western Region 103662 0 (0.0) 166843 0.00 (0.00) 0 (0.0) 85368 0.00 (0.00)
Gujarat 37845 0 (0.0) 57083 0.00 (0.00) 0 (0.0) 37532 0.00 (0.00)
Maharashtra 65817 0 (0.0) 109760 0.00 (0.00) 0 (0.0) 47836 0.00 (0.00)
Southern Region 161578 27 (0.0) 170557 0.61 (0.00) 98 (0.1) 96838 0.41 (0.00)
Andhra Pradesh 60339 0 (0.0) 69306 0.00 (0.00) 0 (0.0) 31671 0.00 (0.00)
Karnataka 40413 0 (0.0) 62434 0.00 (0.00) 0 (0.0) 37516 0.00 (0.00)
Kerala 21946 19 (0.1) 9217 0.20 (0.00) 68 (0.3) 8662 0.35 (0.00)
Tamil Nadu 38880 8 (0.0) 29600 0.41 (0.00) 30 (0.1) 18989 0.06 (0.00)
Uts 732 0 (0.0) 483 0.00 (0.00) 0 (0.0) 318 0.00 (0.00)
All India 893504 141 (0.0) 936610 19.49 (0.00) 173 (0.0) 657953 1.64 (0.00)
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).