India - Common Property Resources, Sanitation Hygiene Services: NSS 54th Round, Schedule 31, January 1998 - June 1998

In this block, information relating to cultivation by the household will be collected for the agricultural year 1997-98. Since the agricultural year will not end before the survey is conducts, information regarding the remaining part of the year will be collected on the basis of the household's plans for the rabi season and extrapolations based on its experience of cultivation in the earlier rabi seasons.

There are provisions of recording the particulars of cultivation of only five major crops in the block. For each of the five crops, information will be recorded in a separate column. In the first item (row), serial numbers are printed. Thus no serial number need be given by the field official. In most case, it is felt, five column would be sufficient. But there will be households which undertake cultivation of more than five crops in an agricultural year. In such cases, the five most important crops will be identified on the basis of the value of production of the crops. Information on these crops will be recorded in this block.