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ADVISORY COMMITTEE

The census taking exercise was guided by an Adviso.ry Committee' This committee
ii comprised of aSout 50 offlcial anO non-otficial members drawn from the concerned
Federal and Provincial Government Departments, Universities, Research Institutes'
while non-official members come from the progressive farmers. The committee is
.f.o of high-level government officials / technical experts from Gilgit
"orprised
Baltistan and Azad Jammu & Kashmir.

TYPE & GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE

As per previous practice and approved procedures, the Agricultural Census 2010
was sample based. The sample design, however, varied for different regions of the
country in accordance with the ground realities'

This census covered the entire country, i.e., Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (including
provincially and Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Frontier Regions and
Agencies), Punjab (including lslamab.ad district), sindh and Balochistan provinces'
The geographic.ou'"r"g" wis also eitended to Gilgit Baltistan and Azad Jammu &
Kashmir, each as a seParate entitY.

SCOPE OF THE CENSUS

The scope refers to the range i subjects / items covered by the census' For
Agricultural Census 2010 the scope with reference to farm area was restricted to the
agricultural farmlsj 7 frotOingls) held and or operated by the Government or by

il;"G household(s), individ-u)tiy or collectively or under corporate arrangement at
the time of census enumeration. consequently, the undistributed government lands
other than government farms, undistributed portion of the lands resumed by the
Government under land reforms, built up areas, land under roads' rails' ravines'
rivers, canals, government forests, parks, lakes' water bodies, shallow lands' hills
and mountains, etc. falling under the category of non-farm area are outside the

scope of the census.
The scope of the present census, as finally approved,..included the collection of data
on type, size, tenure and parcels of farms,'iand utilization, irrigation' area under
crops and orchardi, number of fruit and non-fruit trees, use of manures, fertilizers
uni pf"nt protection measures, use of agricultural machinery, livestock population'
loan and its sources, casual and permJnent hired agricultural labour, household
members by age, sex, qualification and their contribution towards agriculture, type of
residential Structures, economic activities of household members and their main
source of income.To highlight the scope of census, details of total area, farm area'
non-farm area,and their further classifications are shown on the next page in a graph
for the convenience of readers:

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