Page 48 - 1990(3) Cesus Of Agriculture, provience report-Punjab

.MAIN FINDINGS

Farms and Farm Area above in size are only 7 percent
(0.35 million) of the total farms
According to 1990 Census of but they command 40 percent (18.72
Agriculture the total number of miilion acres) of the total farm
privately operated agricultural area. The farms of 5 to 25 acres in
farms are 5. 07 million having an s1ze are· 46 percent (2.32 million)
area of 47.32 million acres. There and the area under these farms is 49
are another 149 state managed farms percent (23. 29 million acres) of the
covering an area of 0. 25 million total farm -area.
acres.
The average size of farm in the
The number of farms . under 5 · country by farm area is 9.4 acres
acres cons~itute nearly 47 percent and by cultivated area 7.6 acres.
(2.40 million) of the total private
farms but the area with these farms The distribution of farms and
is only 11 percent ( 5. 31 million farm area (including government
acres) of total farm area. Ori the managed farms) by provinces is given
other hand, the farms.of 25 acres or below in Table-1.

TABLE-1 -NUMBER OF FARMS AND FARM AREA - BY PROVINCES
(Number i~ Million & Area in Million Acres)

Farms Farm Area Average Size of
A dministrative
U nits Number Percent Total Percent Farm Cultivate
d
Area Area
1 2 3 4 5 6 - 7
Pakistan 5.07 100 47.57 100 9.4 7.6
. .,
NWFP 1.07 21 5.84 12 5.5 3.9
Purijab 2.96 58 27.21 57 9.2 8.3
Sindh 0.80 16 8.63 18 10.8 8.8
Balochistan 0.24 5 5.90 13 24.6 11.8

cultivated Area only 70 percent in farms of 25 acres
and above in size.
The total cultivated area in
..
the country is estimated at 38. 63 The net area sown in the
.. .
~.. . .
million acres, which is 81 percent country amounts to 37. 02 million
of the total farm area. The acres, being 96 percent of the total
proportion of cultivated area to the cultivated area. The r~maining i.61
total farm area is higher in smaller million acres (4%) is current
size farms and gradually decreases fallow.
as the size of farm increases. This
proportion is 92 percent in case of The distributioo of cultivated
farms less than 5 acres, 88 percent area amongst the proviQces is given
in farms of 5 to under 25 acres and below in Table-2 .

. (xl vi)
I