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INTRODUCTION -

The 1990 Census of Agriculture binding on the respondents to
is the fourth decennial Census in cooperate with the census
the country. The first three Cen- enu~erators and to furnish
suses in the same ~eries were con-· information on or with respect to
ducted in the years 1960, 1972 and items specified in the said Act. At
1980. An Agricultural Census is a the same time it assures the
periodic stock _taking arid appraisal secrecy of information· supplied by
of agric~ltural resources of a the respondent~. The provisidns of
· country. It involves a functional the Act were widely publicised just
study of the resources with a view before - and during the census
of discovering their state of use operations. The_ rumours about
and the socio-economic factors af- possible land reforms and the
fecting the extent and efficiency possibility of an agricultural tax
of their utilization. posed problems in some -cases but
the reluctance of - such respondents
Objectives · tO cooperate with the census
enumerators · was . successfully
. .
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The main objectives · of the overcome by persuasive method. NO
Census are: occasion ~rose for initiating legal
action under the Census Act.
1. To develop basic information
on . the structure of agricul- census Organization
ture in the country.
Agricultural Census Organiza-
. . .
2. To provi~e detail~d basic in- tion ~s working as an attached
formation - about the agricul- department to the Economic Aff,airs
tural resources of the and Statistics Di vision, Ministry
country, state of their of Finance ~nd Economic Aff~irs
utilization a'nd to find · out with its headquart_ers · at Lah'ore.
the degree of acceptability of For . smooth execut:i.on- of field
modern farming practices among operations and liaison with the
the farming community, for the provincial governments, one field
purpose of· regional, provin- off ice is located 'in each of the
cial ~nd nationai development provinces, at Peshawar, Quetta and
planning arid research in .the Hyderabad. However, in Punjab there
field of agriculture; and is no separa.te field office as the
, headquarters off ice takes care of
3. To fulfil- data needs of the the duties of the field office
international agencies like also·.
the FAO which require the
country informatidn for a Advis~ry Committee
world wide study of agricul-
tural resources in order to An Advisory Committee ,,compris..:
f6rmulate inte~national ing about 50 official . and non-
polici~s iri the matter~f food official members was constit"4ted j.n
and raw materials. · fr1'2 beginning of the census project
' to advise -the Agricultural Census
Legal Basis .· Organization · on various ·aspects of
the census. The official mel}'lbers
The Agricu.ltural Census Ac:t, were · drawn from the concerned
1958 (Act No.XLI of 1958) .provides . Federal and Provincial government
the ·necessary lega1 cover for the departments while· non-oft icial
census- operations. The Ac-t makes it memers were ta_ken from the Uni '(-er-

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