3.8  LIVESTOCK AND AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS      
Sr. Item Unit       Year %age
No. 1972 1977 1982 1988 1992  1997 (+)/(-)
in 1997 
over  1992
1 2 3 4     5 6 7 8 9 10
A. Livestock :
1 Cattle 
(a) Females over  `000 1812 1697 1958 1811 2136 2432 13.86
    three  years @ @ @ @
(b) Total Cattle " 6458 6006 6994 6240 6803 6749 -0.79
2 Buffaloes 
(a) Females over " 2047 2093 2558 2601 3148 3935 25.00
    three years
(b) Total  3468 3473 4443 4502 5268 6285 19.31
    Buffaloes
3 Total Sheep  " 1722 1592 2357 1559 2027 2158 6.46
4 Total Goats " 3210 3084 3300 3584 4241 4386 3.42
5 Other Livestock " 240 251 1346 1458 1333 1393 4.50
6 Total Livestock " 15098 14406 18440 17343 19672 20970 6.60
(Including Dogs)
7 Poultry (with broiler) " 2736 3426 3572 5492 5657 7231 27.82
B. Implements :
1 Ploughs :
 (a) Wooden           '00 14888 13754 13102 12972 12289 11286 -8.16
 (b) Iron " 2150 2401 4640 5858 6488 6387 -1.56
 (c) Total " 17038 16155 17742 18830 18777 17673 -5.88
2 Carts " 8176 7583 7589 7283 6552 5711 -12.84
3 Oil Engines  " 3711 4221 3920 4714 4191 3672 -12.38
with Pump sets (used
for Irrigation)
4 Electric Pump sets  " 484 794 1722 2191 2114 2016 -4.64
 used for Irrigation
5 Submercible Pump " - - - 717 1242 2056 65.54
Sets(used for 
Irrigation)
6 Tractors (used  "    95   146 281 478 662 1221 84.44
for agricultural  (*) (*)
  purpose)                
(*)  Including Crawler tractors.
(@)  Including over 2.5 years of cross-bred type.
Note : 1. Other livestock includes Horses & Ponnies, Mules, Donkey, Camels, Pigs , Dogs and Rabits.
          2. Census of Dogs has been carried out from 1982 onwards.  
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