SAS survey shows average monthly farm household income of India at Rs 10,218 in 2019
Meghalaya has the highest average monthly income of the farming households in India followed by Punjab and Haryana, as per the survey conducted by the National Statistical Office (NSO) during the period between January 1 and December 31, 2019. The NSO, under the aegis of the Indian government’s Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MOSPI), conducted the survey ‘Situation Assessment of Agricultural Households and Land and Livestock Holdings of Households in Rural India (SAS), 2019’ as part of its 77th round of the National Sample Survey (NSS).
The findings of the SAS 2019 were released on September 10. The survey collected information on the receipts and expenditure relating to crop production, farming of animals and non-farm business, separately for the two halves of the agricultural year July 2018-June 2019.
Incomes from wages/salary and from leasing out of land were also recorded for the same period. Based on this information, average monthly income per agricultural household has been worked out for the agricultural year July 2018-June 2019 by adding up income from wages/salary, income from leasing out of land and net receipts from crop production, farming of animals and non-farm business. Net receipt is worked out by deducting total expenses from total receipts for each source of income.
As per the survey, Meghalaya recorded the average monthly income per agricultural household at Rs 29,348, which includes Rs 6,936 from wages/salary, Rs 106 from leasing out of land, Rs 21,060 from crop production, Rs 842 from farming of animals and Rs 404 from non-farm business.
Average monthly income per agricultural household in Punjab for the period is Rs 26,701, which includes Rs 5,981 from wages/salary, Rs 2,652 from leasing out of land, Rs 12,597 from crop production, Rs 4,457 from farming of animals and Rs 1,014 from non-farm business.
Haryana’s average monthly income per agricultural household for the period is Rs 22,841, which includes Rs 7,861 from wages/salary, Rs 621 from leasing out of land, Rs 9,092 from crop production, Rs 4,020 from farming of animals and Rs 1,249 from non-farm business.
The other two states among the top five having highest average monthly income per agricultural household are Arunachal Pradesh at Rs 19,225 and Jammu and Kashmir at Rs 18,918.
The all-India average monthly income per agricultural household is Rs 10,218, which includes Rs 4,063 from wages/salary, Rs 134 from leasing out of land, Rs 3,798 from crop production, Rs 1,582 from farming of animals and Rs 641 from non-farm business.
The five states with the lowest average monthly income per agricultural household are Jharkhand (Rs 4,895), Odisha (Rs 5,112), West Bengal (Rs 6,762), Bihar (Rs 7,542) and Uttar Pradesh (Rs 8,061).
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