Improving Agricultural Statistics in the COMCEC Region
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OPPORTUNITIES
 Leadership in the developing world in the area
of agricultural statistics especially in palm oil
and rubber
 New Census of Agriculture in 2015
 Adoption of satellite system
 Young and dynamic team
 LISM training centre exits
THREATS
 Out dated sampling frames
 Statistical data not disseminated and kept for internal use
 Decentralized system with weak coordination
NEEDS
 Trainings on survey methodology, questionnaire design and survey implementation
 Technical assistance to improve agricultural statistics system
 Centralized system
 Aligning agricultural statistics to user and policy needs
 More statisticians
 A comprehensive, interactive and consolidated accessible database on agricultural statistics
 Agricultural input prices
 Stronger ICT system
 To build up a central repository to facilitate data sharing between agencies
 Agri-environmental indicators
 Food balance sheets
 A micro and metadata dissemination policy
 Publicly known data dissemination calendar
 International cooperation
 A unique dissemination system
 Censuses of greenhouses; Surveys of irrigated land, farm structure, production cost;
 Consistency check of statistics produced and used by different institutions
 Communication and coordination planning unit
 Updating of farm registers and frames
 Evaluation and audit of major statistical surveys and reporting of confidence intervals
 Improving the visibility of the agricultural statistics
 Strengthening statistical coordination among the various partners