AgCensus Crop Data Cleaned 2010 & 2015

During this period, several administrative changes occurred at the sub-district level, including the creation of new sub-districts and the merging of existing ones. In addition, inconsistencies were observed in the sub-district names and codes across the two datasets.

To address these issues, we conducted a data-cleaning process to standardize and reconcile the sub-district identifiers between 2010 and 2015. As a result, only consistent and comparable sub-district entries were retained, which led to a reduction in the number of rows in the dataset after the cleaning process. The data used in this study are publicly available from the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (MoA&FW), Government of India, through the Agricultural Census database (agcensus.gov.in/AgriCensus/) *The complete cleaned base data of this study are available from the corresponding author upon request.