Dataset · Agriculture
Hectares under 16 to 51 crops in each of Kerala's 152 blocks, with municipality, corporation, district and State totals
The first 5 of 14,070 rows
| period | period_type | geo_level | geo_code | geo_name | district_code | district_name | scope | crop | season | area_ha | unit | qa_flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | academic_year | state | 32 | Kerala | 32 | Kerala | state_total | Arecanut | all | 94553.38 | ha | ok |
| 2022-23 | academic_year | state | 32 | Kerala | 32 | Kerala | state_total | Banana | all | 47803.19 | ha | ok |
| 2022-23 | academic_year | state | 32 | Kerala | 32 | Kerala | state_total | Betel leaves | all | 207.09 | ha | ok |
| 2022-23 | academic_year | state | 32 | Kerala | 32 | Kerala | state_total | Cashew | all | 32684.92 | ha | ok |
| 2022-23 | academic_year | state | 32 | Kerala | 32 | Kerala | state_total | Clove | all | 706.82 | ha | ok |
Area under crops in each of Kerala's 152 blocks, in hectares, as printed in the Department of Economics and Statistics' yearly Agricultural Statistics. The 2023-24 edition gives 51 crops (coconut, arecanut, cashew, pepper, banana, tapioca by season, 27 vegetables and tubers, spices, fodder and teak); the 2022-23 edition gives 16. For every district it also gives the total of its blocks, of its municipalities, of its corporation (six districts) and the district total, and a State total row. Use it to see where a crop is grown inside a district, which no district table shows. The blocks are the department's agricultural blocks, which here are the 152 block panchayats. Production, yield and paddy by panchayat are not in this dataset.
| Column | Label | Description | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
period | Release period | Agricultural year of the Agricultural Statistics edition the row comes from (2022-23 or 2023-24) | |
period_type | Release period type | year, academic_year, quarter or month | |
geo_level | Geography level | block for a block, district for a district or the district-level totals, state for the Kerala total | |
geo_code | Area code | District rows: LGD district code; block rows: PRI key made of the district LGD code and the block name (598-elanthur); state row: 32 |
Please cite this dataset when you use it:
Policy and Research Initiative (2026). Block-wise area of crops in Kerala, 2022-23 and 2023-24 (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. Original data: Department of Economics and Statistics, Government of Kerala. /data/block-crop-area-kerala
geo_name | Area | Block, district or state name, as spelt in PRI's reference tables |
district_code | District LGD code | LGD code of the district the block or total belongs to (32 on the State Total row) |
district_name | District | District the block or total belongs to (Kerala on the State Total row) |
scope | Row type | block for one block; blocks_total, municipality_total and corporation_total for the sum of that kind of area in the district; district_total for the whole district; state_total for Kerala |
crop | Crop | Crop whose area is given, as named in the publication (with typos corrected) |
season | Season | autumn, winter or summer for tapioca; all for every other crop and for the tapioca total |
area_ha | Area under the crop (ha) | Area under the crop in hectares, as printed in the publication |
unit | Unit | Unit of value |
qa_flag | Quality flag | ok, or the district's blocks differ from its Blocks Total, or its parts from its District Total, in the publication itself |
