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DEFINffiONS AND EXPLANATIONS
1. CENSUS means the Census of Agriculture. (b) Tenant : A farmer who operrtes land be-
longing to others and pays fixed i;ent m cash
2. CENSUS YEAR is the Agricultural Year 1st July, or kind or a share of the produce; and
1959 to 30th June, 1960 in all Settled Areas of the Pro-
vince and in terms of Crop Seasons it covers the Kharif (c) Owner-cum-Tenant: A farmer who owns a
season of 1959 and Rabi season of 1959-60. For the part of his farm and has the rest of it as a
Unsettled Areas of Quetca Division it covers_ Rabi tenant.
1960-61 and Kharif 1961. For Kalat Division and
Lasbela district of Karachi Division it covers Kharif Owner-farmer includes a mortagagee in possession
1961 and Rabi 1961-62. o1 land, and allottee of evacuee property and a person
in owner-like possession, for example, a son operating
the land in the life-time of his father.
3. VILLAGE means a demarcated territorial unit
designated as a mouza, .deh or chak in the revenue
records. 9. AREA RENTED means the area for which rent
in cash or kind is paid by a· tenant. . .. -
4. SAMPLE VILLAGf is a village _selected by means 10. AREA SHARE CROPPED means the area for
of a certain sampling method, for the sake of enumera- which a share of the produce is paid by the tenant.
tion in the Census.
11. RENT-FREE AREA means area operated by a.
5. ENUMERATION CIRCLE is the area assigned person other than the owner without paying any rent
to an enumerator for the purpose of enumeration in in the usual form.
the Census. Each enumeration circle was equal to
one sample village.
12. OWNER-OPERATED AREA inc;ludes
6. AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS are of two types-: (a) all area of the owner-farmers; and

(a) Farms; and (b) the area which is owned by the owner-cum-
tenants in the_ir respective farms.
(b) Livestock holding's without land.

13. TENANT-OPERATED AREA includes:
FARM is the aggregate area of land operated by
one person alone or with the assistance of others, without (a) all area of the tenants; and
regard to location, size or title, and used wholly or
partly for agricultural production. (b) the area which is rented, share-cropped or
held rent-free by the owner-cum-tenants.
Area of land situated in different villages but
under the same o_perational control would constitute 14. INDIVIDUAL FARM means a fann operated
one farm. by one or more persons as members of the same
household.
Operation of a farm means (a) pianning of its
utilization and (b) the implementation of such plans. 15. JOINT FARM means a farm operated jointly
by two or more persons of different households.
LIVESTOCK ROI.DING is a holding without land.
It includes the livestock kept by a person other than a 16. FARGMENT is a ·piece of land forming part
farmer, provided that the number of livestock is not of a farm. When a fan11 is split into pieces not linked
with one another in any manner, . each piece would con-
less than one head of cattle or buffalp, 9r five (5) sheep
or goats, or twenty (20) poultry birds. · · stitute a fragment.
. . Distinction should be made between fragment
7. FARMER is a person or group of persons, in and khasra or survey numbers. Village lands are
actual possession of the farm, wb,o plans the utilization divided into khasra · or -survey numbers of different
of the farm and implements the plans either directly shapes and sizes which are measured and assigned
or through hired labour and be::i r the financial res- fixed numbers m the village maps. A farm may contain
ponsibility of these operation,.
one or more khasra or survey numbers but each
khasra or survey number would not be a fragment
8. TENURE classification of the farms has been unless it was detached from the· other khasra or survey
made in the following three tenure groups : numbers of the same farm. If, however, it were linked
with one or more other khasra or survey numbers of the
(a) Owner-farmer : A farmer who owns his same farm the whole block of such linked khasra or
farm; survey i:iu:pibers would constitute a fragment.