Annexure - Directorate of Economics and Statistics

availability to compute the district income estimates adopting the state level methodology. In the case of noncommodity
producing sectors, where the district wise basic data are not available, the State level estimates are
allocated to the districts on the basis of suitable district wise indicators. Further, in some of the commodity producing
sectors, though the district wise production data are available, the corresponding prices may not be available. In
such cases, district wise production and State average prices will have to be utilised for preparation of district
income estimates. Apart from this, wherever certain ratios, norms, yield rates etc, are used for the State level
estimates and which are normally not available at the district level, the State level ratios, yield rates etc, will have to
be used for district income estimates.
Sector wise details of methodology for preparation of Gross District Domestic Product are given in the following
paragraphs.
3.6.1 Agriculture (including Livestock):
A. Gross Value of output:
a) Agriculture Proper
The estimates at district level are worked out by ‘Production approach’ as is done at the State level. The
estimates of gross value of output of crops grown in the district is worked out using the area, production
and the wholesale prices prevailing at the peak market period. The data on area and production are
available in the Annual Season and Crop Report/ Final Forecast/Fully Revised estimates published by the
State DES every year regularly. The peak marketing period wholesale prices are based on regulated
market prices collected from the State Marketing Department/APMCs. The data on production and
prices at the district level may not be available uniformly for all the crops. Hence for estimation purpose,
crops are classified into different categories as follows:
i) Crops for which reliable district wise data on area, production and prices are available:
In such cases, district wise value of output for each crop may be worked out by using district wise
production and prices. The crop wise area and production estimates for the district will be made
available by the State DES from the FRE/Final forecast estimates of Crops. The market centre wise
wholesale prices of crops are available in the monthly returns published by the Director of Agriculture
Marketing, Bangalore. For each crop, the market centre wise prices are averaged for the district,
month wise and again averaged for the peak market period of that particular crop. This peak market
average price of the crop is to be multiplied by the production to get the value of output of that crop.
ii) Crops for which though district wise productions are available, corresponding district wise
prices are not available:
For these categories of crops, district wise production and state level prices may be utilised in preparation
of district wise value of output. The crop wise state average prices will be made available to the
districts by the state DES.
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