Agricultural census begins today
The fourth agricultural census begins across the country from today after over two decades, covering both rural and urban areas for the first time.
The last full-fledged agricultural survey was conducted in two phases for rural and urban areas in 1983-84.
The fourth, 15-day survey will end on May 25.
The census will collect information on the members of each household, how many of them work the land, volume of their land, use of land, agricultural tools, cattle and domestic birds owned by them and data on loans and fallow land.
The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) has taken all preparations for the census and set up a control room at its headquarters in a bid to successfully wrap up the survey, said a press release.
The BBS has appointed 142,000 enumerators and 20,000 supervisors from among educated, unemployed people in order to conduct the survey. Besides, it has assigned from its ranks eight divisional census coordinators, 22 regional census coordinators, 76 district census coordinators and 1938 upazila/zonal census coordinators.
The first sample survey on agriculture took place in 1960. A sample survey was carried out after independence, in 1977 and the first full-fledged survey in 1983-84. A survey in rural areas was conducted in 1996-97 and a sample-basis survey in 2005, the press release said.
The census report will be published by June, 2009.
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