THE PEOPLE

LIVELIHOOD PATTERN

This population is split up by the Census into eight livelihood classes. Of these the four Agricultural Classes making up a total of 672,839 (m. 324,514; f. 348,325) or 74 per cent include: (i) Cultivators of land wholly or mainly owned and their dependents- 243,027 (m. 115,989; f. 127,038) or 26.7 per cent; (ii) Cultivators of land wholly or mainly unowned and their dependents- 381,879 (m. 185,574 ;f. 196,305) or 42.0 per cent; (iii) Cultivating labourers and their dependents-29,439 (TO. 14,853; f. 14,586) or 3.2 per cent; (iv) Non-cultivating owners of land, agricultural rent receivers and their dependents-18,494 (m.. 8,098; f. 10,396) or 2.1 per cent.

The four Non-agricultural classes total 236,244 (m. 121,066; f. 115,178) or 26 per cent include persons (including dependents) who derive their principal means of livelihood from: (v) Production other than cultivation-74,467 (m. 38,544 ;f. 35,923) or 8.2 per cent; (vi) Commerce-34,177 (m. 17,420; f. 16,?S7) or 3.7 per cent; (vii) Transport-20,655 (m. 9,814; f. 10,841) or 2.3 per cent and (viii) Other services and miscellaneous sources-106,945 (m. 55,288; f. 51,657) or 11.7 per cent.

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