Agro-pastoral Statistics : Preparations On For National Census
MINADER, MINEPIA and FAO launched the procedure in Yaounde on Wednesday May 14.
Preparations have begun in Cameroon to set the base in view of
carrying out a general national census on agro-pastoral production in
the country. Stakeholders under the coordination of the Ministries of
Agriculture and Rural Development (MINADER), that of Livestock,
Fisheries and Animal Industries (MINEPIA) and the Food and Agriculture
Organisation (FAO) have up till December 2015 to prepare the ground for
the census which is expected to arm decision-makers with viable and
up-to-date statistics.
This preparatory work will consist in putting in place administrative
procedures, technical documents and an adapted methodology to ease the
inventory. Launching the preparatory phase in Yaounde on Wednesday May
14 in the presence of MINEPIA boss, Dr. Taiga and FAO Country
Representative, Mai Moussa Abari, MINADER boss, Essimi Menye, said
viable and updated agro-pastoral statistics are indispensable for the
irreversible second-generation agriculture policy the State has embarked
on. Minister Essimi Menye said good governance needs reliable
statistics which have a price and that second-generation agriculture
needs planning with statistics as an indispensable tool. “The last
available data on agro-pastoral production in the country dates over 30
years ago. We need to re-establish some basic data so that we can
conveniently put in place second-generation agriculture,” Mr Menye said.
The project to span through 64 months (February 2014 to May 2019)
will gulp in some FCFA 9 billion with over FCFA 8 billion to come from
the State and FAO to chip in FCFA 221.5 million alongside technical
expertise. “We are still working towards getting the real budget and
being able to certify that we have the whole money needed. However, with
the support of FAO, we have been able to launch the preparations of the
census and we hope that by the end of this year, we would have all the
documentation ready and the budget accepted by the government as well as
all the paper work in order to have the full agreement to launch field
census,” the Minister noted.>>>
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