Agriculture Census Organization (ACO) was established in 1958 as an attached department of the then Ministry of Agriculture under the legal cover of Agriculture Census Act 1958. Immediately after its inception, ACO conducted Agriculture Census of 1960 to fulfill national and international requirements of data on agriculture. Later on, this Organization conducted a survey-cum-census under the recommendation of the Farm Mechanization Committee, Government of Pakistan, in 1968 and an Agriculture Census in 1972 which was actually due in 1970. Two years delay in the conduct of Agriculturel Census was on account of disturbed political environment in the country and war with India. Subsequently, ACO conducted Livestock Census in 1976 to provide data on livestock and related parameters as the last assignment carried out under Ministry of Agriculture.