Introduction

The 2010 Population and Housing Census gathered information on agricultural households, locality and farming activities. An agricultural household is where at least one member of the household is engaged in an agricultural activity either for sale or family gain. Agricultural activities specified are crop farming, tree planting, livestock rearing and fish farming. Some households are engaged in multiple agricultural activities.

 
Households in Agriculture

Table 7.1 shows the distribution of households engaged in agricultural activities by locality of residence in the district in 2010. Almost three quarters (74.5%) of the households are engage in agricultural activities. About 92.2 percent of the agricultural households are in rural locality and the remaining 7.8 percent are in urban locality. In rural locality, 76.4 percent of the households are engaged in agricultural activities compared with 94.3 percent of households in urban locality.

About 97.2 percent of the agricultural households are engaged in crop farming, 24.0 percent are in livestock rearing, 0.3 percent are engaged in fish farming and 0.1 percent are in tree planting. The proportion of households engaged in livestock rearing in rural locality is 23.6 percent compared with 29.2 percent in urban locality. The proportion of households engaged in fish farming in rural locality is 0.3 percent compared with 0.8 percent of households in urban locality; and 0.1 percent each of rural and urban households are engaged in tree planting.