Basic information of Assam

Total Geographical Area : 78438 sq km (78.44 lakh ha)
Urban : 00.77 lakh ha
Rural : 77.67 lakh ha
Total Area under Forest : 19.32 lakh ha l
(Excluding Plantation Crops)
Gross Cropped Area : 24.90 lakh ha
Area Under Horticultural Crops : 5.94 lakh ha
Tea and Coffee cultivation area : 2.34 lakh ha
Rubber Cultivation area : 0.11 lakh ha
Area sown more than once : 13.53 lakh ha
Cropping intensity
At the end of 8^th Plan period : 145.30%
At the end of 9^th plan period : 147.00%
At the end of 3 years of : 154.34%
10^th plan period
Land put to non-agricultural uses : 10.7 lakh ha
Barren and uncultivable land : 14.61 lakh ha
Cultivable west land : 80,194 ha
Wet land (area under water bodies) : 1,01,231.00 ha

Waste land statistics (Source : ARSAC)
Upland : 311732.44 ha
Waterlogged/Marshy land : 166435.82 ah
Shifting (Jhoom ) cultivation Land : 260431.27 ha
Under utilized/ degraded notified : 164434.90 ha
Grass land/Grazing land : 221084.67 ha
Insand/Riversand Area : 286957.55 ha
Industrial waste land : 43.71 ha
Barren/Rocky/Stony Waste land : 37.50 ha
Agricultural land under notified : 1.02 lakh ha
Total Waste land : 1513076.60 ha
Pest endemic area : 2.23 lakh ha
Chronically flood prone area : 4.75 lakh ha
Chronically drought prone area : 0.94 lakh ha
Total Irrigated land : 5.35 lakh ha
Average size of operational holding : 1.17 ha
No. of Agricultural Labours : 8.45 lakh
(as per 19991 Census)
No. of farm families : 26.83 lakh
P.C. of agricultural working force : 53.0 % of total working force
P.C of small farmers : 20.90 %
p.C. of Marginal farmers : 62.22 %
P.C. of Semi Medium Farmers : 13.09 %
P.C. of Medium farmers : 3.59 %
P.C. of Large farmers : 0.19 %
P.C. of SC farmers : 4.69%
P.C. ST farmers : 12.60%
Seed replacement rate (rice) : 3.01 %
No. of Agri- Farming Cooperations : 11 nos
No. of regulated market : 24
Normal Annual rainfall : 2584.50 mm
Pattern of rainfall
December-February : Dry period
March-April : Low and irregular pre-monsoon shower with spells o draught
May-September : Heavy rainfall with apprehension of flood

Area under Different soil order
Entiso : 28.00 lakh ha
Inceptiso : 34.00 lakh ha
Alfisols : 7.50 lakh ha
Ultisols : 3.70 lakh ha
Marshy land : 0.92 lakh ha
No. of Civil districts : 27
No. of Civil Sub-division : 49
No. of Revenue Circle : 155
No. of Development Block : 219
No. of Gaon Panchayat : 2490
No. of Villages : 26,247
No. of of Towns : 125
No. of Agricultural Districts : 23
Total Agricultural Sub-Division : 63
No. of ADO Circles : 382
No. of VLEW Elekas : 2948
No. of Field Management
Committee :
: 25,938
Demography
Total population as per 2001 Census : 2,66,38,407
Population density : 340 /sq km
P.C. of SC population : 7.40 %
P.C. of ST population : 12.82 %
Sex ratio (Female per 1000 male) : 932
Literary rate : 64.28

Source : Department of Agriculture, Govt. of Assam, Khanapara