Animal Husbandry Statistics

The Animal Husbandry Statistics Division of the Department conducts IntegratedSample Surveys to estimate productions of major livestock products viz. milk, egg,meat and wool. It also collects to her livest ock stat istics through interaction with State Governments and other Central departments/organizations concerned with development of the Livestock Sector. Major Livest ock products like milk, eggs, meat& wool are estimated on the basis of sample surveys being conducted throughoutthe year under the Central Scheme Integrated Sample Survey for the Estimation ofmajor Livestock Products. All the States and Union Territories are implementing thescheme. Surveys are done throughout India and round the year, whereas data arecollected generally by camping in the sampled villages. Three stage stratified random sampling is adopted to find the annual estimates of livestock production of major livestock products after building it on seasonal basis. These are published inthe consolidated annual report of the sample survey prepared by the St ates/ UTs. Atnational level Statewise annual estimates are published in the biennial publicationknown as "Basic Animal Husbandry Statistics" or through department's website afterit has been approved by the expert committee "Technical Commit tee for Directionfor Improvement of Animal Husbandry and Dairying Statistics" (TCD). The TCDstreamlines animal husbandry statistics, identifies shortcomings and approvesvarious measures which could bring improvement in the livestock statistics byholding its periodical meetings in various part of t he country. The Committee isjointly headed by Adviser (Statistics), Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying&Fisheries and Director of Indian Agricultural Statist ical Research Institute (IASRI).Secretary of the Department and Animal Husbandry Commissioner are mainobservers and guiding force of the committee, who keep a close watch on thefunctioning the committee. The members of the TCD committee are heads ofselected Statistical Organizat ions / Departments at the Centre and States, and theDirectors of Animal Husbandry of all the States and Union Territories. ThisCommittee also reviews progress of implementation of the scheme of IntegratedSample Survey for the estimation of major livestock product s besides approving the estimates of production of milk, egg, wool and meat. The approved estimates oflivestock production and other related statistics are published in the biennialpublication known as "Basic Animal Husbandry Statistics". The latest published issueof the publication is of the year 2006 containing the dat a up to 2005-06.

Basic Animal Husbandry Statistics 2006Basic 2006 (for complete download on your systemclick on right button of mouse and click on Save As Target Link)

Livestock Census

In view of the importance of livestock sector to the national economy and considering the short span of re-productivity and life of domestic animal, the first Census was organized during 1919-1920 and since then it is being conducted quinquennially by all the States/UTs in India.

So far, 18 such Censuses have been conducted and the latest one is the 18th Livestock Census in the series with 15/10/2007 as the date of reference. 17th Livestock Census was due to be conducted in 2002 but due to the transfer of this work from the Department of Agriculture and Cooperation to the Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries in February, 2002, it got delayed and was conducted with reference date 15th October, 2003. As the Livestock Census is being conducted quinquennially, the XI Plan Subgroup of the Planning Commission recommended that in order to maintain a proper series of the data, the 18th Livestock Census should be conducted with reference date as 15th October 2007. The ultimate responsibility for conducting the livestock census rested with the State Governments. The Department of Animal Husbandry in the respective States/UTs was responsible for managing the enumeration and computerization of data with Directors of the Animal Husbandry Services as the nodal officers. The Central Government has coordinated the work of the States and issued necessary guidelines to ensure uniformity in collection of census data and their processing. The National Informatics Centre (NIC) imparted training to State officials on the software developed by them for computerizing the 18th Livestock Census data. The Census data was computerized by respective State Governments or private agencies engaged by them, using the software developed by the NIC. The computerized data from States was processed at NIC for validations and verifications before generation of tables as per approved tabulation plan. In the 18th Livestock census, for the very first time digital data up to the household level has been processed at the central level through NIC. The All India Report (Provisional Results) on the 18th Livestock Census, processed by the NIC from the digital data village level totals is available on the official website of the Department.