ICAR-IASRI Annual Report 1968

Abstract

Valuable contributions have been .made by the Statistical Wing to the problem of improvement of crop acreage and production statistics. Sampling techniques were developed for securing objective and reliable estimates of marine fish catch and livestock numbers. By the end of 1952 the crop cutting surveys for the esimation of principal food crops were extended to practically the whole country. In January, 1953, according to the decision of the Government of India the work of the large scale sample surveys on food crops and a few other surveys was transferred from the I.C.A.R. to the Directorate of National Sample Survey in the Ministry of Finance. A small training unit consisting of whole time Professors, Assistant Professors and demonstrators was constituted to b e Specially responsible for organizing the various courses. The Institute soon acquired international recognition as a training and research institute in the field of agricultural statistics and was responsible for training foreign students a organizing seminars for the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations.