India - Land and Livestock Holdings Survey: NSS 48th Round : January - December 1992:Visit-1

Columns 16 to 18 are meant for collecting information on parcels constituting the operational holding.
A parcel of an operational holding is a piece of land surrounded by land not included in the holding. A parcel of land may consist of one or more plots. The number of parcels constituting the operational holding will be recorded in col. (16). The distance of the parcel farthest from the place of residence will be recorded in col. (17) in kilometers rounded off to one place of decimal. Among the parcels constituting the operational holding, all may not be cultivated during the reference period. The number of parcels cultivated during the reference agricultural season will be recorded in col. (18). A parcel will be considered to have been 'cultivated', if it is used for rising field crops or production of horticulture and plantation crops during the reference agricultural season.