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Agriculture lands work out to be nearly 750 acres. The average
land-holding size per household is about 3.7 acres and per person, about
0.8 acre. It gives an average of about 4.7 acres per land-holder. Current
fallow lands account for about 150 acres. This is about one fifth of the
total farm lands in Seripura. The net-sown area (cultivable lands)
accounts for about 80 per cent of the total farm lands in Seripura. The
average cultivable lands is about three acres per household and about 0.6
acre per person. The gross sown area (cropped lands), based on their
intensity of use for the cultivation of different crops, is 675 acres, an
increase of about one eighth of the total cultivable lands. Fully irrigated
lands in Seripura form just 16 per cent of the total cropped area.
Twenty-one per cent of the households in the village are landless
while 22 per cent are marginal, 30.5 per cent smalL 20 per cent medium.,
and 6.5 per cent large farmers. Marginal farmers own about 9 per cent of
the total land area. Small farmers own about 29 per cent, medium 35 per
cent and the large farmers own about 27 per cent of the lands. The
average land-holding for the marginal farmers is about l.7 acres, smalL
3.9 acres, medi urn, 6.7 acres and for the large, about 16 acres.
Kongu Vellala Gounder (KVG) show the highest average oflandholding
per household at about 5.68 acres. The other three communities
that are closer to this average are Golru (5.67), Naidu (5.32) and
Kurumbar (4.49). The average land-holding for Boyer is 3.48 acres,
which is slighdy below the village average. All other castes show an
average land-holding per household, quite below the village average, the
highest average per household being 2.04 acres, which is for the
Parayans, a scheduled caste. The average area per household for the
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