Indian District Database

Crop totals: area and production format

Crop totals data (570-582) formats:

column data:
1-2 State ID
3-4: District ID
5-7: Record identification (see list)
8-9: Year of data (last two digits)
10: Version number (2 = cross-sectional data; 6 = panel 1961-91 data)
11-19 area in hectares
20-28 value in 1000s of rupees; 1971 prices taken from Bhalla and Tyagi, Patterns in Indian Agricultural Development, 1989, page 213 except for coconut and arecanut which were calculated from weighted average of statewise prices from 1966-67 to 1969-70 as reported in Farm Harvest Prices.
29-30 number of crops with positive area included in totals
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Indian District Database
Last updated October 1, 2000
comments to: Reeve Vanneman. reeve@umd.edu