48 SOCIAL SCIENTIST (iv) transport by other means, and (v) other services arc not estimated at all.5 The figures published in the National Income White Paper follow certain conventions assumed by GSO, as recommended by the National Income Committee, subject to minor modifications as marginally greater data became available. Similarly, it is well known that there is no information on the working force that is associated with the activities of these or many other sectoral incomes, and these unchartercd sectors are the only ones where the additional working force (which expanded very substantially during the 25 years or so of planning) must have gone into, as the working force absorbed in the other sectors is not only reasonably well known but also known to have absorbed a comparatively small proportion of the growing working force.6 If the White Paper estimates of income generated from the subsidiary sectors were taken to be correct, the fall in the per capita income in these sectors would have to be very substantial. It would also lead inexorably to the somewhat odd hypothesis that inspite of the very substantial fall in the sectoral per capita incomes, these subsidiary sectors could attract all the extra working force. It is difficult to accept such a phenomenon as a reasonable economic behaviour. Agricultural Income Computation The income of the largest sector, namely agriculture, representing as much as 47.4 per cent of the total income during the year 1969-70, is likewise known to be curiously derived. On every count, the estimate is based on the gross income generated by some of the major products that are usually classified as being agricultural. The nature of the available statistics is such that this income cannot, in effect, be specifically attributed to any identifiable member of rural households. It is denfinitely not the total income of the total number of agricultural households. The only firm base of information in this regard relates to 15 or so major crops. Even on what may be regarded as the cost of cultivation of these crops, from the standpoint of the agricultural households, almost no reliable information of any quality is really available. As regards the minor products and household income? from those sources there is no reliable information at all. In consequence, no dimensional picture that may be called an estimate can possibly exist in respect the minor crops including products based on collection. It is hopefully expected that the income from sources other than the major products would be a small and a constant fraction of the total agricultural income. It is possible, even probable, that this is not so.7 One cannot leave this subject without referring to a trick of statistical witchcraft by which the manureal value of the compost produced by the cattle population and the value of the fodder, which do not move through the market, are equated and cancelled against each other for the purposes of consolidating the income generation from agriculture and animal husbandry (at least for that part where they are inexorably mixed).