BANGLADESH STRATEGIC PLAN ON AGRICULTURAL AND RURAL STATISTICS (2016-2030)
June 2017
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) Statistics and Informatics Division (SID) Ministry of Planning
| Secretary Statistics and Informatics Division (SID) Ministry of Planning Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh |
FOREWORD
Its my pleasure to present you the Bangladesh Strategic Plan for Agricultural and Rural Statistics-SPARS that was approved by Ministry of Planning on 27-07-2017.
The Bangladesh SPARS translates the five core strategic goals with 37 output and 87 actions for improvement of agricultural and rural statistics synergized with the goals of National Strategy for the Development of Statistics-NSDS, National Agricultural Policy-NAP as well as 7th five year plans.
The SPARS was prepared with the support of FAO in line with the Global Strategy to improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics (GSARS)-a global initiative that was developed under the guidelines of United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and was endorsed in 2012 by United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC). It will facilitate to buildup strong basis of agriculture and rural statistics in the country to provide data for monitoring Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The document is a living one for the period of 2016-2030 and will be adjusted according to the changes in relevant sector. It covers all statistics somehow aligned with agricultural and rural sectors with clear emphasis on crops, fisheries, livestock, agricultural marketing, land water resource, forest and environment statistics. The clear roadmap that has been depicted in the document will help to improve statistics related to above issues through implementation of stipulated actions. The reliable and timely data of agricultural and rural sector will contribute to the development prospects of this sector in Bangladesh.
Dhaka June, 2017 | K M Mozammel Hoq Secretary |
ACRONYMS
ACPS Agriculture Crop Production Survey
AMIS Agriculture Market Information System
BADC Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation
BARC Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council
BARI Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute
BB Bangladesh Bank
BBS Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics
BFD Bangladesh Forest Department
BMD Bangladesh Meteorological Department
BRRI Bangladesh Rice Research Institute
BWDB Bangladesh Water Development Board
CPI Consumer Price Index
DAE Department of Agricultural Extension
DAM Department of Agricultural Marketing
DLS Department of Livestock Services
DoF Department of Fisheries
EC Economic Census
EPB Export Promotion Bureau
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FBS Food Balance Sheet
FPMU Food Planning and Monitoring Unit
GDP Gross Domestic Product
GIS Geographical Information System
GSARS Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics
HIES Household Income and Expenditure Survey
ICT Information and Communication Technology
IdCA In depth Capacity Assessment
ISRT Institute of Statistical Research and Training
IT Information Technology
LFS Labour Force Survey
LUS Land Use Statistics
MDG Millennium Development Goal
MoA Ministry of Agriculture
MoD Ministry of Defence
MoEF Ministry of Environment and Forests MoF Ministry of Food
MoFL Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock
MoLGRDC Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperative
MoP Ministry of Planning
MoWR Ministry of Water Resources
NBR National Board of Revenue
NQAF National Quality Assurance Framework
NSC National Statistical Council
NSDS National Strategy for the Development of Statistics
NSO National Statistics Office
NSS National Statistical System
PARIS 21 Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century
QNA Quarterly National Accounts
SDG Sustainable Development Goals
SID Statistics and Informatics Division
SMI Survey of Manufacturing Industries
SNA System of National Accounts
SPARRSO Space Research and Remote Sensing Organization
SPARS Strategic Plan for Agriculture and Rural Statistics
UNSC United Nations Statistical Commission
UNSD United Nations Statistics Division
Executive Summary
Preparation of Strategic Plan for Agriculture and Rural Statistics (SPARS) for Bangladesh has been done by adaptation of the process followed in developing National Strategy for Development of Statistics (NSDS). The approach provides opportunity to the users to assess the current status of Agriculture and Rural Statistics, review data needs, evaluate the degree of integration of the agricultural sector in the National Statistical System (NSS) and develop a medium and long-term sustainable perspective addressing key constraints in meeting data demands.
The Bangladesh SPARS is prepared in line with Global Strategy to improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics (GSARS). The GSARS was formulated by World Bank and FAO under the guidelines of United Nation Statistics Division (UNSD) and that endorsed by United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC) in 2012. In line with Global Strategy, Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) carried out the In-depth Capacity Assessment (IdCA) program with the support of FAO and published the report in 2014. The preparation of SPARS is also the continuation of fulfillment of proposal I recommended in IdCA. Countries having the national plan on improvement of national statistical system have been considered important in SDG document.
The SPARS is a living document for the country to meet its medium to long term requirement for strengthening and development of well-coordinated and integrated agriculture and rural statistics system in cooperation with relevant ministries/departments as well as international agencies. The approach adopted ensures release of coherent, reliable, internationally comparable and timely Agriculture and Rural Statistics (ARS).
The SPARS has given emphasis on development of professionalism in the statistical work through regular training, introducing higher course in statistics and close connection with Institute of Statistical Research and Training (ISRT) of University of Dhaka and Bangladesh Agriculture University. The restructuring the Agriculture Wing of BBS as well as establishing statistical cell in planning wing of all ministries and departments has also been recommended. Establishing good coordination among relevant ministries/agencies are vividly discussed in SPARS.
Considering the importance of reliable statistics for measuring SDG, National Five-Year Plan and other strategic plan, focus has been given to best use of administrative data to lessen the burden on BBS as well as to increase the use of administrative records as official statistics. Clear guidelines have been provided in SPARS to address the issue.
The Bangladesh SPARS will help in ensuring availability of core indicators identified in (GSARS). A census and survey calendar has been prepared (shown in Annexure-II) in SPARS that will give clear idea of number of census and surveys important for the country.
The SPARS also identifies the areas like best use of ICT infrastructure for statistical purposes including data collection, processing and dissemination. It emphasized on continuous evaluation of data demand, common data management system and data sharing protocols.
There are ten broad parameters of SPARS itself that is explained in introduction. These will help to understand the processes of implementation of SPARS activities. The SPARS has identified the necessity of statisticians in preparing national plans for getting technical support in assessing the progress of the plan.
Five Strategic Goals, 37 outputs and 87 strategic actions/activities have been identified in SPARS for their achievement over the period 2016 to 2030. The Strategic Goals are as follows:
Strategic Goal 1: Improve competencies of National Statistical System to produce and disseminate core set of ARS in accordance with international standards and best practices Strategic Goal 2: Strengthen partnership and coordination among Ministries / Departments and attain harmonized definitions and statistical practices to efficiently produce coherent ARS
Strategic Goal 3: Strengthen capacity to adopt cost effective and scientific survey methodology using sampling frame based on Censuses
Strategic Goal 4: Develop a comprehensive human resources and capacity building mechanism with corresponding organizational setup to ensure participation in policy formulation
Strategic Goal 5: Improve ICT infrastructure, develop ICT applications for collection, compilation and processing of ARS and establish Integrated Data Management and dissemination system
The document has been developed following Result based Management approach. Hence, Logical Framework has been developed to identify output(s) to be achieved to meet each of the above mentioned strategic goals. Further, corresponding to each output, number of strategic actions/activities has been identified. For each activity to get completed, Objectively Verifiable Indicators (OVI) has been identified. These would be used for reporting progress of SPARS.
A Committee chaired by Secretary, Statistics and Informatics Division and co-chaired by Director General, Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics has been proposed in SPARS for monitoring and evaluation of implementation of SPARS. The committee will evaluate the progress of it and provide direction for proper implementation of SPARS.
CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION
Bangladesh is the country with distinct agricultural setting. The substantial part of its typographically and climatically diverse economy is set in the Sundarbans Delta, the largest delta of the world. It is the most populous country in the world with 156.8 million populations (2014) with high population density of 1063 person per sq. km. Sixty six percent population lives in rural areas. Agriculture is main occupation of the working population with 45 percent being engaged in these activities. Contribution of agriculture in GDP is more than 15 percent in 2015-16. Its diverse sub-sectors comprising of crops, livestock, fisheries and forests account for 55 %, 14%, 22 % and 9% respectively in its agriculture economy.
1.1 Importance of Agriculture and Rural Sector in Bangladesh
1.1.1 There is paramount importance of agriculture and rural sector in Bangladesh to meet its diverse development challenges. The agriculture sector is the major contributor to sustained food, nutrition and livelihood security of its large population to achieve self-sufficiency in food production, reduce rural poverty and foster sustainable economic development. Development of agriculture in Bangladesh is therefore accorded high priority by the Government with special emphasis on agriculture related policies, planning and informed decision making. In this process, the need for scientific measurement of changes in agriculture related indicators is duly recognized. It has, therefore, emerged timely availability of quality data on different aspects of the food and agriculture. Meeting such data demand requires concerted and organized efforts by various organizations dealing with agriculture related issues. The advancements in technology in capturing and analysis of data have opened new frontiers to interpret, understand and infer about the issues confronting the sector. Statistical system is facing serious challenges in meeting this rising demand. There is a need to improve and strengthen the system with specific focus on agricultural and rural statistics.
1.2 Emerging Needs for Strategic Plan on Agricultural and Rural Statistics
1.2.1 Creation of enabling conditions to improve statistical system and taking sustainable measures to improve timely availability of quality statistics is at the centre stage of strategies for increasing food security, reducing poverty and promoting overall economic growth. This aspect has been re-stressed in the 7th Five Year Plan (SFYP) of Bangladesh. One of the distinct features of contemporary planning process in Bangladesh is the emphasis on building up evidence based decision making and periodic monitoring and evaluation of development. Towards this end, FYP document has made particular mention on need to improve system of relevant data in terms of quality, timeliness and adequacy.
1.2.3 This distinctive recognition of an efficient data system incidentally converges with the global context in which GSARS is evolved under the aegis of United Nations. The genesis of the GS was in the experienced prevalence of general weakness in the timely availability of quality statistics, resultant handicaps faced in decision making and universally recognized need for desired set of direct and derived statistical indicators on different aspects of sector for formulating programs and policies. The main objective of the GS is to reposition the national and international agricultural and rural statistics systems to meet the requirements of various stakeholders for monitoring of national and global development goals in synergy with the national development priorities. Bangladesh is one of the anchor countries in the Asia-Pacific
region for GS implementation. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has provided necessary support in this endeavour.
1.2.4 One of the important elements of GS implementation is to develop SPARS in accordance with the national priorities and development plans, shared by all stakeholders. The Bangladesh SPARS envisages strategizing its goals for realization of GS objectives synergized with the national context, and articulated in its vision and mission. It includes a concrete plan of action to implement it. SPARS process provides a means to raise the profile of agricultural and rural statistics, build a constituency for the future and ensure that main priorities are agreed and shared by stakeholders.
1.3 ARS to measure achievements for Sustainable Development Goals1
1.3.1 Bangladesh is rigorously working on Sustainable Development Goals to achieve targets by 2030. The goals address broad range of issues. These 17 SDGs has major emphasis on sustainable development and has focus on issues like inequality, unsustainable consumption patterns, weak institutional capacity, and environmental degradation. The 2nd SDG goal articulated as “End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture” directly concerns the agricultural and rural development. This goal has a series of targets to support the three interrelated components: ending hunger, achieving food security, improved nutrition and promoting sustainable agriculture. There are 21 targets in all the SDGs which have direct impact on agriculture related activities. Achieving the SDGs would be possible only if these targets are included in policy formulation, planning, budgeting, programme development and implementation. Therefore, there is a need to produce the agriculture and rural statistics relevant to SDGs keeping in view the importance of this sector in the context of Bangladesh society and economy. The SPARS provides an opportunity for developing pathway towards taking agriculture development programmes for meeting the targets in SDG and monitoring the achievements.
1.4 Broad parameters adopted in development of SPARS
1.4.1 The SPARS process is an adaptation of the process followed in developing NSDS of Bangladesh. The approach provides opportunity to the stakeholder to assess the current status of statistics, review data needs, evaluate the degree of integration of the agricultural sector in the National Statistical System (NSS) and develop a medium and long-term and sustainable perspective addressing key constraints and data demand. Systematically designed SPARS, thus, will be a living document for the country to meet its medium to long term requirement of strengthening well-coordinated and integrated agriculture and rural statistics system, co-shared by its different stakeholders for their specific data needs. The SPARS has been developed keeping the following parameters in view:
(i) Complementary to NSDS: The SPARS BD is a document complementary to NSDS goals especially in the areas of agriculture statistics. All the strategic goals and activities therein have to be in consonance with implementation of NSDS.
(ii) Medium and Long Term Strategic Plan: The SPARS is designed to integrate agriculture and rural statistics into national statistical system. Although this is a continuous process, the activities envisaged are expected to start immediately to achieve
1http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/news/communications-material/
strategic goals. The activities are to be taken in such a manner that SPARS is fully implemented by 2030.
(iii) Continuity: The SPARS has to be implemented within the stipulated time frame. But this will be a living document and will be adjusted over time.
(iv) Reliability and Accessibility: Main focus of the SPARS is to emphasize issues that will ensure the reliability of disseminated data and its accessibility to the users.
(v) Capacity Development for Sound National Statistical System: Focus on the sound national Statistical System has been given with due importance to agricultural and rural statistics. This will characterize professionalism in statistical work, organizational reform, human resource management, efficiency, use of scientific methodology and ensuring evidence-based decision making.
(vi) Effective Coordination: Specific strategies are to be built for achieving effective coordination between BBS and ARS dealing Ministries.
(vii) Delineation Coverage of Agricultural and Rural Statistics: The SPARS has to critically delineate the country specific scope and coverage of agriculture and rural sector keeping connection with the guidelines of Global Strategy.
(viii) Supply of Core Statistics: The SPARS has to emphasize on supply of core set of agricultural and rural indicators based on relevant census and survey data as well as administrative data. This should support the country perspective as well as five-year plan and sectoral plan and SDG monitoring.
(ix) Data Analysis and Policy Interpretations: The SPARS would provide mechanism for statistical analysis of census and survey data with required policy interpretation for the policy makers.
(x) International Comparability: The SPARS would ensure adoption of UN Fundamental Principles of official statistics as well as the guidelines of Global Strategy to ensure international standards and comparability.
(xi) Survey Calendar and Log Frame Analysis: The SPARS would have census and survey calendar clearly indicating the core census and surveys essential for Agriculture and Rural Statistics and with their periodicity.
(xii) Monitoring of SPARS Implementation: For implementation of SPARS, a committee chaired by Secretary, SID, Ministry of Planning co-chaired by Director General, BBS has been proposed to monitor the proper implementation of Strategic Actions to achieve Strategic Goals of Bangladesh SPARS.
1.5 SPARS Process in Bangladesh
1.5.1 Overall direction for preparation of SPARS was given at the highest level of Government. SPARS preparation is led by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), Statistics and Informatics Division (SID), Ministry of Planning, Government of Bangladesh. The first phase of launching the implementation of GS in Bangladesh commenced in December 2013. In 2014 a comprehensive In-depth Capacity Assessment (IdCA)of its system of Agriculture and Rural Statistics (ARS) and that of its national institutions engaged in production of core ARS data was made by the BBS in close collaboration with various departments of the Government of Bangladesh dealing in subjects relating to agriculture and allied activities. This was done with technical support of FAO.
1.5.2 SPARS has been designed and developed using two tier structure. There is a high level Steering Committee headed by Secretary, SID and its members are senior officers from BBS and the line ministries dealing with agricultural and rural statistics as well as data users. This body
has all the powers to approve and implement activities relating to SPARS. This body is assisted by a Technical Working Committee headed by Director General, BBS which has members from the concerned data producing departments. Director, Agriculture Wing, of BBS is the National Coordinator for formulation of SPARS.
1.5.3 Standardized SPARS designing process gives due consideration to existing sub-sectoral institutional and administrative structure and priorities and the statutory framework of official statistics in the country. It envisages determination of in-country governance structure to oversee the integration of agriculture into the NSS, identification of country specific set of core data items, existing gaps in data availability, assessment of resources and methodologies in vogue, the institutional and statistical methodology aspects related to integrate agriculture into the NSS, application of information technology and data management requirements. Development of SPARS also ensures consistency and complementarities of future investments and resources in the system and sustainability of impact of interventions.
1.5.4 The SPARS designing process started through a consultation workshop under the Chairmanship of Secretary, Statistics and Informatics Division (SID), Ministry of Planning in collaboration with all stakeholders involved in generating ARS on 15 November, 2015. The workshop was attended by 32 participants- 20 from BBS and SID and 12 from different departments concerned with agriculture and allied activities. The workshop deliberated on issues, approaches, practices and institutional arrangements for effective strategic planning for agriculture and rural statistics development. A meeting was held on 26 November, 2015 chaired by DG, BBS where different issues in preparing SPARS were discussed. In a meeting on 30th March, 2016, draft SPARS document was presented to the Technical Working Committee (TWC) which constituted of 36 members from the different line departments. The draft SPARS was scrutinized in the meeting chaired by DG, BBS on 21 August, 2016 with all Directors of the different wings and Project Directors, BBS, for incorporating additional comments and further observations on the SPARS document. Later on, the document was sent to the relevant ministries/departments for comments/suggestions and was improved accordingly. This document along with the earlier document was discussed in BBS in a meeting chaired by Director General, BBS on 7 November, 2016 where all Directors of BBS, representatives of SID Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock and concerned agencies participated. This document has been modified based on the suggestions made in the meeting.
1.5.5 The document on SPARS was placed before the Technical Working Committee meeting on 23 February 2017 that was chaired by Director General, BBS. Representatives from all relevant ministries/departments were present. The document was widely discussed and finalized there. The first meeting of the Steering Committee headed by Secretary, Statistics and Informatics Division was held on 4 May 2017. The final meeting of Steering Committee was held on 22 May 2017 and the SPARS was approved in that meeting. After the approval of the SPARS by the Government, the implementation of various activities under each strategic goal shall commence.
CHAPTER II: INSTITUTIONS AND POLICY CONTEXT FOR ARS
2.1 Institutional Framework of National Statistical System (NSS)
2.1.1 After the independence in 1971, the institutional strengthening and organizational structuring in statistical system was done as the Government realized the necessity of forming a strong national statistical organization. Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics was established in 1974 consolidating Bureau of Statistics under Ministry of Planning, Population Census Commission under Ministry of Home Affairs, Bureau of Agriculture Statistics and Agriculture Census Commission under Ministry of Agriculture. The Statistics Division was also formed under the Ministry of Planning in 1975 to provide policy support and guidelines. The Statistics Division was further renamed as Statistics and Informatics Division in 2013 with greater responsibilities. The NSS Bangladesh has evolved as a centralized system with Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) is the lead and a nodal institution for generating, coordinating and disseminating official statistics on various social and economic aspects of the country.
2.1.2 BBS is the major source of key agricultural and rural statistics. It has experience in conducting four agricultural censuses since the country’s independence. The Annual Survey on Crop Production is one of the priority surveys of the BBS, generating annual area and production estimates for 126 crops, which include major crops such as aus, aman, boro (three paddy crops), jute, potato and wheat. The BBS also collects price statistics and brings out price indices and other macroeconomic aggregates.
2.1.3 The NSS Bangladesh includes not only the BBS but also various Ministries and public agencies that participate in collection and dissemination of statistical data. Decentralized and distinct administrative and management responsibilities assigned to sub sectors of agriculture viz, crops, livestock, fisheries, forestry etc. has also resulted in decentralization in the statistical system.
2.1.4 Recently enacted Statistics Act, 2013 is an institutional milestone of NSS in Bangladesh. The Act entrusts the BBS with the responsibility for collection, compilation, analysis, dissemination and coordination of all types of statistics including agricultural statistics in the country in a methodological and timely manner. The Act, in Clause Ga-6 mandated BBS to conduct Population Census, Agriculture Census, Fisheries and Livestock Census and Economic Census. It also empowers BBS to conduct all types of surveys including agriculture related and land use surveys. It may be mentioned that an approval from BBS will be required if any organization likes to conduct survey. Thus, the Act has entrusted BBS with the functions of supporting, coordinating and endorsing the statistics generated and disseminated by other line ministries, departments and organisations. This, in the long run, is expected to streamline the methodological and reporting differences of many key national statistics, enhance credibility of statistics and improve access and availability to different users and stakeholders.
2.2 Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics
2.2.1 The BBS is the National Statistical Office (NSO) authorized and mandated for collection, processing, dissemination and coordination of almost all major official statistics of national importance. The key functions of BBS are to organize and conduct national censuses & statistical sample surveys, management of human resources including their capacity development, create and organize a unified service for all statistical personnel, advise and
coordinate statistical works for all offices of the government and authenticate statistics produced by the other departments for maintaining statistical standards.
2.3 Aligned Ministries and Departments
2.3.1 Not all activities concerning agricultural statistics are carried out by the BBS and there are also some important activities, such as generation and dissemination of fisheries statistics that are organised in a decentralised manner by the Department of Fisheries (DoF) under the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock (MoFL). On some other subjects, such as livestock and poultry, generation of statistics is not regular and well-organised. There are sporadic and less statistically structured data collection/compilation activities carried out by other agencies such as the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), Department of Agricultural Marketing (DAM), Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF), Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC), Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) etc.
2.3.2 Outside the NSO, very little statistical activities are performed to generate data and even if they have been performed, standard operating procedures are lacking. Most noticeable statistical activities in the line departments are by Department of Fisheries and Bangladesh Forest Department. The annual fisheries statistics of Bangladesh is released since 1982 by the Department of Fisheries (DoF). Statistics on forest area cover and forest produce is generated through administrative procedures of Bangladesh Forest Department. Department of Livestock Services also uses statistics for its subsector but there is no systematic statistical operation for this purpose.
2.3.3 Ministry of Agriculture also undertakes surveys for monitoring of crops and prices of commodities albeit without proper statistical considerations. Ministry of Water Resources has the mandate of management, development and efficient use of water resources in the country. Irrigation and water statistics is compiled by the Ministry. Information is regularly available for major irrigation projects. However, there are some methodological and use of appropriate classification related issues in the data collected. No information is at present available on minor irrigation.
2.3.4 Some of these statistics do get generated out of the administrative procedures. Important among these are statistics on agricultural trade and rural credits (Bangladesh Bank), government budgetary support to agriculture sector (Ministry of Finance) and rural infrastructures such as rural electrification and communication.
2.3.5 Different departments use statistics for their respective sectoral requirements. Most prolific user of ARS for informed decision making is Food Planning and Monitoring Unit (FPMU), for its mandate to manage food security situation in the country. Besides data on availability of food and its distribution in the country, FPMU is also concerned with the early warning system on the domestic and international availability of food as well as market indicators. Planning Commission and Ministry of Finance are other important user organisations of specified ARS statistics for informed decision-making.
A list of user organizations along with source of data providing organization is at Annex-I
2.4 Coordination Mechanism in NSS
2.4.1 Prior to the Statistics Act, 2013, the highest advisory body of the BBS was the National Statistical Council to meet periodically to take broad policy decisions and consider recommendations on collection, compilation and dissemination of statistics. In the provisions of the Statistics Act, the apex decision body to approve the broad technical and policy issues of the
BBS is the Steering Committee (SC), headed by the Secretary, Statistics and Informatics D+ivision of the Ministry of Planning. There is a Technical Committee (TC) headed by the Director General, BBS to look into technical details and operational issues. Besides these, inter- ministerial effort to synchronize statistics of greater national interest is also underway.
2.4.2 During the consultations for the NSDS it became clear that the links between the BBS and other producers were very limited and immediate improvements in coordination were needed. NSDS also considered for establishing the Statistical Cells of the BBS in the key line departments. The establishment of statistical cells is significant in data production, to promote consultation and coordination and such cells are envisaged to provide overall management and policy guidance to the ministries and to review and harmonise all statistical concepts, classifications and methods used by them in data collection, processing and dissemination. Furthermore, they will be responsible for compiling statistics from the data of the respective ministry.
2.4.3 The NSDS also provides for signing Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) between the BBS and other agencies so as to build a strong and sustainable relationship with them. Furthermore, it seeks to use, where possible, the field strength of the ministries/agencies during censuses or large scale surveys, which will help accelerate the statistical work and improve data quality at low cost.
2.5 National Strategy for the Development of Statistics-NSDS
2.5.1 Focusing on the needs of all data users, Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics prepared the National Strategy for the Development of Statistics (NSDS) in 2012 in consultation with a number of development partners and agencies. The NSDS document states that the Vision of NSS Bangladesh is to become a world-classprovider of authentic, relevant and timely data in a holistic and user-friendly manner. It inter alia promotes better generation and dissemination of statistics and strengthens all statistical services so that they meet the needs of a rapidly developing nation, ensuring availability of comprehensive and coherent statistical data while making effective and efficient uses of national resources. The formulation of NSDS has taken note of strengths and weaknesses of the NSS and stated the Mission of the NSS (1) to establish an integrated, professional, efficient and effective national statistical system, under the guidance and leadership of the BBS; and (2) to produce official statistics that meet the current and evolving needs of national and international users in a transparent and timely fashion, using international standards and the best statistical practices.
2.5.2 The NSDS is to be implemented through the BBS with responsibility shared by its eight wings. NSDS recognizes the importance of coordination, both internally within BBS and externally with other departments. Strong coordination set up has been created in BBS through a Committee chaired by Director General to monitor implementation of activities under NSDS. Directors of the BBS and Directors from other departments are members of the committee.
2.5.3 NSDS has also laid emphasis on improvement of quality, coverage and timeliness of agriculture and related statistics using latest ICT and space technology.
2.5.4 During the consultations for the NSDS it became clear that the links between the BBS and other producers were very limited and immediate improvements in coordination were needed.
2.5.5 NSDS also considered for establishing the Statistical Cells of the BBS in the key line departments. The establishment of statistical cells is significant in data production, to promote consultation and coordination and such cells are envisaged to provide overall management and policy guidance to the ministries and to review and harmonise all statistical concepts, classifications and methods used by them in data collection, processing and dissemination. Furthermore, they will be responsible for compiling statistics from the data of the respective ministry.
2.5.6 The NSDS also provides for signing Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) between the BBS and other agencies so as to build a strong and sustainable relationship with them. Furthermore, it seeks to use, where possible, the field strength of the ministries/agencies during censuses or large scale surveys, which will help accelerate the statistical work and improve data quality at low cost.
2.6 National Plans (Perspective & Five Year)
2.6.1 The 7th Five Year Plan (FYP), referencing 2016 – 20202 identifies the contemporary national priorities and the vision for the development of agriculture sector to ensure food and nutritional security, enhancement of sustainable intensification and diversification of climate resilient agricultural production with increased commercialization, livelihood improvement through technological innovations and use, strengthening of research and extension system, developing marketing extension, value addition of agricultural products, and linking farming community with markets, both local and global. National planning process assigns key role to subject Ministries to implement government policies and programmes and in developing and implementing projects.
2.6.2 Despite several constraints faced by the farm sector and food security concerns in the country, there has been encouraging response to the stimulus provided by the successive Plans and sub sector policies.
2.7 Sub Sector Policies
2.7.1 In addition to the National Agriculture Policy3formulated by the Ministry of Agriculture and updated from time to time, respective policies on fisheries, livestock, as well as environment and forestry are formulated and directed by the respective Ministries. This is in consonance with
2Seventh Five Year Plan Fy2016 – Fy2020, Accelerating Growth, Empowering Citizens, General Economics Division (GED), Planning Commission, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, October 2015
3National Agriculture Policy, 2013, Bangladesh(http://www.moa.gov.bd/policy/nap.htm)
the need to address the recent developments and the problems concerning the overall food sector, involving different ministries and departments dealing with inputs, resources, production and distribution of food commodities.
2.7.2 The National Food Policy for food management and food security connects with all these sub-sectors policies. The policies framed by different departments are synergised with the overall planning and development priorities of the government. The National Food Policy envisages wider statistical input for addressing food management and food security. Statistics not only relating to crop production and the inputs and resources used for crop production but also to distribution, availability, access and consumption by the people are required. Accordingly, the plan of action for the Food Policy has statistical input on the aspects of marketing, storage, prices, distribution and availability not only from domestic production but in the situation of deficit availability from imports or other sources, stocks, employment, income and consumption of diversified food for proper nutrition.
2.8 Policy Derivative on NSS
2.8.1 There is an expanding demand for statistics. The 7th FYP expressed the limitation of quality and timely data experienced in the past. It has invoked an inbuilt mechanism of Result Based Monitoring and Evaluation of set targets and goals entrusting Planning Commission the focal point of M & E Strategy and specifying prime role of BBS to generate data and indicators and its analysis for the purpose. A brief of agriculture sectoral strategies and policies in 7th FYP, summarised in table below supplements the SPARS development in consonance with the sub sector requirement.
Table 2.1: Synopsis of Agriculture Sub-sector Policies and Strategies for 7th FYP
Crops | Livestock | Fisheries | Forestry | Cross Cutting issues |
Sustainable Agriculture and Green Growth Crop Zoning Land Use Planning Agricultural Inputs Precision Agriculture Diversification – Horticulture Water use Efficiency Farm Mechanization | Dairy & Poultry development Meat Production Breed Development Livestock Research Veterinary Services and Animal Health Feeds, Fodder and Animal Management Hides and Skins | Open water fisheries management Inland aquaculture Shrimp and coastal aquaculture Marine Fisheries and Exploring Blue Economy | Forest conservation and plantations Forest produce management – wood , non-wood Agro & Social forestry Forest land survey and land records Protection of forest eco system Watershed management | weather prediction and forecasting Research, gender, HRD, pest disease management, Credit and Extension, Agro-Processing; Value Chain development Good Agricultural Practices |
2.9 In-depth Capacity Assessment of ARS
2.9.1 The recently completed In depth Capacity Assessment (IdCA)4 to produce Agriculture and Rural Statistics in Bangladesh as a part of implementation of Global Strategy to improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics (GSARS) reviewed all the major statistical activities relating to agriculture and rural sector carried out by BBS and the line departments, their methodologies, data users’ needs and gaps, data duplication and resources availability in different agencies.
2.9.2 The review brought to notice the strengths and weakness in NSS in producing agricultural statistics. The IdCA also took note of the issue of duplication in crop production estimates by BBS and Ministry of Agriculture. Some of the user departments found to be lacking appreciation of statistics in their respective fields of work.
2.9.3 The comprehensive assessment has been made in the context of minimum set of core data and its availability. The identified core data are mapped on the agencies, responsible for their generation. Several datasets relating to minor crops, livestock, fisheries, forestry, farm-gate prices and data on environment were observed to be suffering from one or more deficiencies.
2.9.4 Some key observations from the IdCA capacity assessment synthesis are availability of strong legal framework and existence of appropriate institutions to produce ARS which is in consonance with the observation of NSDS. It has, however, identified need for a separate strategy for agriculture statistics removing financial and human resource constraints, specially training and capacity development. It has also recognized the need for capacity development in user departments to strengthen agricultural market and price information, fisheries and livestock and water statistics. Gaps in several core data and the statistics also needed to be addressed to prepare food balance sheets, commodity balances for crops, stocks, livestock, and agro- environmental indicators.
2.10 SWOT Analysis of Agricultural and Rural Statistics
In Bangladesh, the national statistical system is strong in many respects, though there is much scope to strengthen the system. The Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats of this system are shown below in brief;
Strengths | Weaknesses |
1.Statistical Act, 2013 2.National Strategy for the Development of Statistics (NSDS) 3.In-depth Capacity Assessment completed 4.Available Experts in BBS 5. Synergies with 7th Five Year Plan and SDGs | 1.Weak Organizational Setup 2.Inadequate Manpower 3. Non-availability of Statisticians in different Ministries/Departments |
Opportunities | Threats |
1.Integration of Agriculture Statistics with NSS - Initiative of FAO and other International Organizations
- Country wide Organizational Set up
- Dominance of Agriculture Sector
| 1.Lack of Fund 2.Lack of Coordination among Ministries/Departments |
4 Report of IdCA Bangladesh can be accessed at http://www.gsars.org/report-on-in-depth-capacity-assessment- of-bangladesh-to-produce-agricultural-and-rural-statistics
CHAPTER III: REVIEW OF ARS DATA SYSTEM
3.1 Overview of Agriculture and Rural Statistics
3.1.1 Profile of agricultural and rural statistics has expanded in coverage over years. This now includes crops, livestock, fisheries and forestry cross cutting with the economic, social and environmental dimensions. Besides the activities, production, size and magnitude of farm entrepreneurship, the aspects of trade, resources, inputs, processing, prices, infrastructure demographic and social economic aspects of well-being, macro-economic indicators and environmental data relating to land water and air now fall under the ambit of ARS. This diverse data dimension on one hand is to meet requirements of different stakeholders on the other hand it has to provide meaningful inference to address the aspects of food, livelihood security and well-being of the people.
3.2.2 There is expectation from the system of ARS to provide coherent and consistent set of data. Traditionally the system of ARS was seen from the perspective of crop statistics. In the contemporary context, the statistics on subsectors of livestock and fisheries, production system and market information, value addition, consumption, income, employment have also become significant. These statistics need to be sourced from several statistical operations. Some of these statistical operations such as population, economic and agricultural censuses, crop surveys, social economic surveys and administrative reporting systems are carried out by the NSO and remaining information may be provided by other agencies. Such statistical operations together form the system of ARS. There remains considerable unmet demand of data in the system.
3.2.3 The limitations and constraints in the NSS in general and system of ARS in particular have often surfaced in recent years. The plan to improve system of ARS having multiplicity of the institutions and statistical operations with the respective strengths and weaknesses necessitates strategic thinking and approach.
3.2 Main Statistical Operations related to BBS
3.2.1 Main statistical operation to generate statistics on agriculture and rural sector is the Agriculture Census periodically conducted by the BBS. There is considerable improvement in the conduct of decennial Agriculture Census over the years. The Agriculture Census 2008 was fourth in the series and was more comprehensive in geographic and data coverage to provide several benchmark indicators on the aspects of farm and non-farm, rural urban operational holdings in size class, land and crop use with irrigation and variety particulars, livestock holdings and livestock population, some aspects of fisheries, agricultural labourer, farm machinery etc. The population and economic censuses are also major statistical operations providing statistics on select social and economic dimensions of ARS.
3.2.2 Amongst the surveys generating ARS, Agricultural Crop Production (ACP) survey conducted by BBS is one of the main source of national and sub-national estimates of crop area and production for 126 crops. For six major crops, Aus, Aman and Boro paddy and jute, wheat and potato, the yield estimates are based on crop cutting experiments. ACP adopts household interview approach to estimate area of all the crops and yield for the remaining 120 minor crops.
3.2.3 Other statistical operations by BBS concerning ARS are ad-hoc surveys on cost of cultivation for select crops, survey for crop forecast for major crops, household surveys on income expenditure for determination of prevalence of poverty, labour force surveys and computation of national accounts that includes agriculture as sub sector in GDP.
3.2.4 The BBS also holds responsibility of dissemination of ARS through publications, survey reports and through its website. BBS is the nodal agency for human resource management of statistical professionals engaged with NSO and also associated with ARS and foster partnership for development and improvement in methodologies.
3.3 Major Gaps in ARS
In IdCA, all the major statistical activities carried out by BBS and the line departments, their methodologies, data users’ needs and gaps, data duplication, resources availability in different agencies, were reviewed with a view to identifying strengths and weakness in NSS in producing agricultural statistics. Several data relating to minor crops, livestock, fisheries, forest data, price data and data on environment have been observed to be suffering from one or more deficiencies, as summarised in the table below:
Table 3.2: Data Gap Analysis undertaken in IdCA.
Data issue | Core Data |
Core data collected | Crop statistics, Major crops, Employment, HCI, Animal feed, CPI, Demographic |
Core data not collected/ partially collected | Agro-processing, Commodity prices, Food stock, Food balance sheet, Environmental data |
Core data collected only through administrative process | Forestry, Trade, Fertilisers, Pesticides, Seeds, Govt. expenditure, rural infrastructure |
Core data collected but not at needed frequency | Agriculture machinery |
Core data collected but precision is lower than demanded | Crop statistics, Minor crops |
Core data collected but methodology lacks soundness | Fisheries, Water use, CPI, rural infrastructure, Land cover and Land use |
Core data disseminated with projections on baseline | Livestock and poultry, Trade |
Core data by multiple agencies | Crop statistics, Major and minor crops, Livestock and poultry, Trade, Land cover and Land use |
3.4 Profile of Core data
A core set of indicators has been identified in Global Strategy to improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics. Country specific core data has also been identified for Bangladesh in In-depth Capacity Assessment report.
3.5 Proposals of IdCA for Improvement of ARS and their present status
Based on the assessment made during the preparation of In Depth Country Assessment report on Agriculture and Rural Statistics, eight proposals were made for their immediate implementation.
Progress of proposals of In-depth Capacity Assessment report is given below:
S.No. | Proposals in IdCA | Present status |
I | Development of a Strategic Plan for the improvement of Agricultural and Rural Statistics (SPARS) in Bangladesh | Bangladesh SPARS has been prepared with the support of FAO and going to be finalized within short time. |
II | Strengthening the crop estimation system, crop forecasting and crop monitoring for important crops promoting in the process, the use of upfront technologies of GIS and remote sensing. | Existing crop production estimation methodology and crop forecasting methodology reviewed and new methodology recommended through Agriculture Market Information System project supported by FAO. The fund is basically provided by BMGF. |
III | Developing an integrated framework of census and surveys for the agriculture and rural sector covering crops, livestock, fisheries, inland water bodies and other such related areas. | BBS is going to conduct Agriculture (Crop, fisheries & Livestock) Census in 2018. A census and survey calendar for ARS has been developed and recommended in Bangladesh SPARS. |
IV | Strengthening analytical capacity of institutions involved in the production and use of agricultural and rural statistics to better use the data for management of the sector, policy making and monitoring progress. | BBS is working on the issue under various activities needs to be streamlined. |
V | Strengthening the mechanism of coordination, documentation, research and analysis in the NSS for improving agricultural and rural statistics. | Comprehensive coordination mechanism has been developed in Bangladesh SPARS that will be implemented. |
VI | Human Capacity Building | Process of reorganization of BBS is going on. Seminar, workshop and training was conducted under AMIS project. BBS will initiate for other regular training with the support of government fund. |
VII | Promoting ICT applications in agricultural and rural statistics including promoting appropriate use of technology, hardware and software resources, digitisation of survey frames, data management, national data centre, data dissemination and user interface. | Use of ICT in agriculture statistics for data collection will be partly done by government fund. This will require more effort. |
VIII | Sensitising respondents and users for building up trust and reputation of statistical products. | Small scale activities are going on. More initiative is needed. |
4.1 Planning Process
4.1.1 The strategic evolution of a comprehensive plan of action for sustainable strengthening of agriculture and rural statistics involves consultative synthesis of national statistical system and its institutional framework. This also addresses diverse data demand of the multifaceted agriculture and rural sector in the perspective of national plan and development policies. This document has prioritised statistical activities to be performed in medium to long term in an integrated manner. The Strategic Plan has to be cost-effective and should meet the expectations of different stakeholders. Following the approach of NSDS, the SPARS has defined mission and vision statement for Agriculture and Rural Statistics System followed by its strategic goals, outputs and the activities to be taken up to achieve targets. Thus, the SPARS is a results based plan of activities resulting in outputs meeting strategic goals and ultimately achieving mission and vision of SPARS.
4.2 SPARS Vision and Mission
4.2.1 Based on the discussion with stakeholders comprising of users and producers of agriculture and rural statistics the following reflects the Vision of Agriculture and Rural Statistics System in Bangladesh.
4.2.2
Produce and disseminate agricultural and rural statistics (ARS) in a transparent, timely and user friendly manner, adopting international standards, best practices and latest technologies through strengthening the capacity of producers with human and financial resources to meet contemporary and evolving needs |
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To achieve this vision, the mission of the system is the following:
4.3 SPARS Strategic Goals
4.3.1 The SPARS planning process is basically aimed at helping the stakeholders of agricultural statistics system to identify achievable goals reflecting the reality as highlighted in the assessment of the current status of the agricultural statistical system and designed to accomplish
above stated vision and mission. Core element of SPARS is identification of strategic goals and related outputs that are aimed to be accomplished in a realistic and feasible manner in the implementation phase (5-10 years).
4.3.2 Considering the multiplicity of the factors and crosscutting issues identified in the assessment, the strategic goals are identified keeping in view the multi-dimensional aspects of institutions, statistical operations and methodologies dovetailed to subsector characteristics, human resource and infrastructure, technology and interface with stakeholders and development partners.
4.4 Strategic Goals in SPARS of Bangladesh
4.4.1 The strategic goals of SPARS have been determined on the basis of need of the sector consistent with Statistics Act, 2013, National Strategy for the Development of Statistics (NSDS) and the In-depth capacity Assessment Report on Agriculture and Rural Statistics of Bangladesh. The following strategic goals have been identified for Agriculture and Rural Statistics (ARS) development in Bangladesh.
4.5 Goal-wise outputs and related strategic actions/activities
The capability of BBS and Ministries/departments dealing in agriculture related subjects is to be strengthened in producing useful and reliable statistics. There is also need to promote statistics friendly attitude amongst the staff in these Ministries.
To produce reliable statistics, National Quality Assurance Framework for all the census and surveys need be developed. There is also need to establish system of maintaining Statistical Business Process Model (SBPM) in all ARS. Obligation in following the QAF will increase the credibility of statistics and would ensure international comparability.
FAO recommended core set of indicators have suitably adapted in the context of the country. There has to be awareness of these indicators amongst relevant Ministries/Departments so that these indicators could be used for achieving targets, and for monitoring and evaluation of progress. These indicators should also be available to other stakeholders. As BBS has the legal mandate to produce all basic indicators of all the sectors, it also has the responsibility to support and coordinate the statistical activities carried out by other Ministries/Departments and finally endorse these products.
It is essential to ensure the ARS generated in the country is internationally comparable. For this, it is necessary that recommendations of FAO for conducting census and surveys and the guidelines and statistical principles set by UNSD are strictly followed. It is also necessary to assess and utilize the experiences and good practices of other countries. These experiences are shared through relevant Global and Regional Committees and therefore participation in these committees would be useful for improvement of competencies of ARS in the country.
Outputs under the goal:
(i) Competencies of NSS strengthened
(ii) Enhanced use of official statistics in planning/decision making process
(iii) All ARS data follow international standards and quality
(iv) National Quality Assurance Framework for ARS developed
(v) Core-set of indicators available according to GSARS
(vi) Updated methodologies/best practices followed by other countries adopted
Output 1.1 Competencies of NSS strengthened
Statistics Act, 2013 has been enacted in the country to strengthen the National Statistical System (NSS) so that the policy and decision making process in the Government becomes evidence based. The NSDS has identified the process of strengthening the NSS including Agriculture and Rural statistics. The primary goal of SPARS is to develop strategy for improvement of
agriculture and rural statistics. As this sector is concerned with the large number of Ministries and Departments, it is important to establish organisational set-up in those ministries/department to smoothly deliver the reliable statistics in timely manner.
Strategic actions/activities:
(i) Produce and disseminate reliable and timely agriculture
(ii) Use up-to-date methodologies in surveys and censuses
(iii) Provide guidance to other organizations producing statistics
(iv) Improve professionalism of BBS personnel
(v) Meet the demand of stakeholders properly
Output 1.2 Enhanced use of official statistics in planning process
For using the statistical findings and its application properly, it is recommended to ensure involving statisticians in preparing the perspective plan as well as the sectoral plan to make it target oriented. Statisticians will set tools there to monitor and evaluate for measuring progress. The idea is to ensure use of base data for monitoring progress.
Strategic actions/activities:
(i) Involve statisticians in medium/long term planning document of the country
(ii) Ensure enhanced use of official statistics in administrative management
(iii) Enhance involvement of statisticians in preparing sector-specific plan
Output 1.3 All ARS data ensure international standards and quality
It is essential to ensure the data internationally comparable. For this, it requires following the recommendations of FAO for conducting census and surveys and the guidelines and statistical principles set by UNSD. It is also important to follow experiences and good practices of other countries shared and disseminated through relevant Global and Regional Committees.
Strategic actions/activities:
(i) Review the concepts, definitions adopted in collection of ARS in BBS and aligned ministries/agencies
(ii) Follow the principles of official statistics set by UNSD
(iii) Review statistical process adopted in producing ARS
(iv) Assess quality of ARS produced and suggest methods for improvement
Output 1.4: National Quality Assurance Framework for ARS developed
To produce reliable statistics, common census and survey Framework need to be developed describing all the essentials of QAF. This will establish the system of maintaining Statistical Business Process Model (SBPM) in all statistical undertakings of the country. The mere obligation in following the QAF will increase the credibility of statistics and ensure international comparability.
Strategic actions/activities:
(i) Identify international standards and guidelines for each ARS product
(ii) Evaluation of existing process for generation of the product in the context of international guidelines
Output 1.5 Core set of indicators available according to GSARS
The core-set of indicators will be acquainted to the relevant ministries/departments so that they can use these data for achieving targets, and for monitoring and evaluation purposes. The FAO recommended core-set of indicators must be available to the stakeholders. As BBS has the legal mandate to produce all basic indicators of all the sectors, BBS also has the responsibilities to support and coordinate the statistical activities carried out by other ministries/departments and finally endorse it. Thus, the core list of indicators can be available through the strengthening of NSS.
Strategic actions/activities:
(i) Evaluate existing data availability to GSARS
(ii) Identify data gap to GSARS
(iii) Conduct new survey and taking proper steps to transform administrative records into official statistics
Output 1.6 Updated methodologies/best practices followed by other countries adopted
BBS has to ensure introducing updated methodologies and best practices followed by the reputed National Statistical Organizations in other countries. The regular cooperation and negotiations will be required to improve the quality of activities of BBS. This can be done through arranging training with foreign experts, study visit, implementing MoU and so on.
Strategic actions/activities:
(i) Adopt updated methodologies/best practices followed by other countries
(ii) Review and improve existing methodologies used by BBS in regular interval
(iii) Organize/participate in national/international seminars on methodological issues
(iv) Involve academia/experts in designing and implementing census/surveys
Establishing partnership between BBS and other line ministries at an optimum level is the key factor to develop agricultural statistics. For the whole agriculture sector, production statistics of crops, fisheries and livestock and their prices are very important. For this, strong coordination among BBS, DAE, DoF, DLS, and DAM is required. NSDS has clearly recommended maintaining good coordination with line ministries/departments through Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU). BBS will start working immediately with DAE, DoF, DLS and DAM. Statistics Act, 2013 has mandated BBS to produce official statistics. It also empowered BBS in streamlining the data generated by line ministries. BBS is to support, coordinate and endorse the data generated by other line ministries/departments to avoid data duplication in government agencies.
Outputs under the goal:
(i) Efficient production of coherent and consistent agriculture and rural statistics
(ii) Improved coordination between BBS and other data producing agencies of ARS
(iii) Harmonized concepts and definitions used by all ministries/agencies of ARS
(iv) More administrative data used as official statistics
(v) Increased participation of stakeholders for assessing data demands
Output 2.1: Efficient Production of coherent and consistent agriculture Statistics
The primary goal of SPARS is to produce coherent and consistent agriculture and rural statistics. One of the key factors for development of ARS is close partnership and coordination of BBS with agriculture related Ministries. There is a need to form a committee duly recognized under the Statistics Act, 2013 for coordination and monitoring the process of implementation of SPARS.
There is also need to issue a notification/ Government order from BBS clearly stating the statistical products to be brought out by each Ministry/Department in agriculture related activities along with periodicity and timeliness.
Strategic actions/activities:
(i) Development of integrated calendar for Census and surveys for ARS
(ii) Organize regular training with updated manual for field staff
Output 2.2 Improved Coordination among data producing agencies of ARS
To achieve better coordination among agencies engaged in production of ARS, it is necessary to prepare a compendium of standard concepts and definition used in ARS. This would be required to be prepared in close cooperation and consultation with all the concerned departments. BBS will have to take the responsibility of bringing out this compendium. In this process, inconsistent definitions, if any, would also get streamlined and uniform and internationally accepted definition would be adopted and used for future data collection and dissemination. Preparation of MoU among other related ministries /departments will facilitate to improve the quality of ARS product.
According to the responsibilities stipulated in MoU, coordination with related departments will be done. The MoU can be prepared on the basis of following matrix;
Sl. No. | Survey Name | Implementing Agency | Line Deptt. | Areas of Coordination |
1. | Crop Area and Yield Survey (Annual) | BBS | DAE | - Preparation of SF
- Preparation of Survey Calendar
- Preparation of Table
- Preparation of Survey Manual
- Training at headquarter & field offices
- Supervision activities
- Finalizing Report
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2. | Fish Production Survey (Annual) | DoF | DoF |
3. | Livestock Survey for Main Livestock (Annual) | BBS | DLS |
4. | Survey on Price of Agricultural Produces | DAM | DAM |
BBS will initiate this immediately to follow. This mechanism will be implemented with other ministries/departments gradually. This process will contribute practicing harmonized concepts and definitions and establishing statistical standards.
Strategic actions/activities:
(i) Setting up coordinating body under the Statistics Act, 2013 on all matters relating to ARS
(ii) Establish partnership with ministries/ departments and delegation of responsibility relating to production and release of ARS to each concerned ministry/ department
(iii) Establish coordination through MoU for defining responsibilities
(iv) Appoint focal point official of line ministry/department to BBS for coordination
Output 2.3 Harmonized concepts and definitions used by all ministries/agencies of ARS
BBS has to take initiative to harmonize the concepts and definitions related to ARS that is used by different ministries and departments. This activity is prime to avoid discrepancies of data among the agencies. Necessary publication on all the definitions and concepts will be prepared and circulated.
Strategic actions/activities:
(i) Prepare compendium of standard concepts and definitions on ARS
(ii) Update concepts and definitions in accordance with the recommendations of international agencies
(iii) Conduct review meeting with stakeholder
Output 2.4 More administrative data used as official statistics
Optimum coordination between BBS and other ARS related ministries/departments will increase the use of administrative data as official statistics. BBS will ensure necessary support and guidance other agencies to keep their administrative records systematically and preparing own data bank. This will minimize the burden on BBS to generate official statistics.
Strategic actions/activities:
(i) Develop new statistical products from administrative system of agriculture related ministries
(ii) Collaborate line ministries/agencies to preserve administrative records systematically
Output 2.5 Increased participation of stakeholders for assessing evolved data demands
BBS needs to institutionalize the mechanism for continuous assessment of data demand of stakeholders. For this, BBS can organize consultation workshop on stakeholder’s opinion. Assessment of data needs through structured questionnaire is essential instrument to identify current data needs.
BBS needs to be familiarized with the changing concepts and domains of agricultural activities. The sustainable agriculture and the Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) are the issues like that. BBS needs to collect this type of data to facilitate decision making process through providing data on current issues and practices.
Strategic actions/activities:
(i) Conduct ad-hock survey on data demand
(ii) Organize meeting/consultation workshop on use of agricultural and rural statistics
(iii) Assess SDG indicators/other relevant policy documents and determine data gap
To achieve the goal, the following ten (outputs) are planned to be generated. These outputs will be achieved by set of activities described in each case.
Outputs under the goal:
(i) Structural data on crops, livestock and fisheries are available generated from related censuses
(ii) Sampling Frames using census data base for annual survey on production of crop, fisheries and livestock developed
(iii) Census and Survey Calendar related to ARS followed
(iv) Annual Crop production survey conducted using improved methodology
(v) Annual fish production survey conducted using improved methodology
(vi) Annual livestock production survey conducted using improved methodology
(vii) Annual survey on livestock resources, input cost of crops, fisheries and livestock conducted using improved methodology
(viii) Annual food balance sheet prepared
(ix) Survey on private food grain stock (supply and value chains) conducted
(x) Survey on irrigation system conducted
(xi) Survey on land use conducted
(xii) Survey on forest product conducted
(xiii) New databases to measure Natural Resources (land, Water and Air) changes developed
Output 3.1 Structural data on crops, livestock and fisheries are available generated from relevant censuses
The most important activity for conduct of scientifically designed sample survey is to carry out Agriculture Census. BBS has been conducting agriculture census decennially to collect, compile and disseminate data on structural changes of agriculture sector over long period of time. Statistics generated from agriculture census is also disseminated at division/district/upazila/union/ mauza levels. To measure inter-censal annual changes, sample surveys are being conducted to provide estimates with minimum time, cost and effort. The statistical sample survey methodology adopted for the purpose provides information close to actual information. This information is effectively used in estimation of value addition of sector to GDP, food management, monitoring and evaluation of sectoral progress and policy/ plan formulation.
BBS is planning to conduct next Agriculture Census in 2018 covering crops, fisheries, livestock, and forestry and environment sectors in an integrated manner following modular approach to data collection. This approach will be cost-effective for generating reliable ARS and will increase the scope for analysis covering social, economic and environmental dimension of activities in the sub-sectors. This integrated approach to Census and Survey planning will facilitate establishment of sampling frames to support future surveys.
The forthcoming Agriculture Census is intended to comply with the recommendations of FAO World Programme for Census of Agriculture (WCA 2020) which is for the period 2016-2025. The modular approach proposed to be followed in Agriculture Census 2018 will be an extension of the modular approach used in the last Agriculture Census 2008 with a view to capture more data on items keeping in view the demands from sub-sectors of fishery and livestock. The census will be designed keeping in view follow-up surveys. Core Census module will collect data on structural items which will be more or less the same as the Agriculture Census 2008 so as to allow measurement of change since the last census. Key questions on fisheries, livestock and forestry will be included to provide crucial structural data on these sectors.
Strategic action/activity:
(i) Conduct agriculture census covering crops, fisheries and livestock sub-sectors
Output 3.2 Sampling Frames using census data base for annual survey on production of crop, fisheries and livestock developed
One of the essential prerequisite for conducting scientifically designed statistical surveys is the Sampling Frame. A suitably designed Census provides such frames for follow up surveys for more detailed data aspects. Considering a very large data requirement on the diverse aspects of crops, livestock and fisheries and the gaps and limitations in the existing data system, it is
envisaged to develop sample frames from the agriculture census. The annual production survey on crop, fisheries and livestock, cost of production and other agriculture related household and farm survey would be conducted on the basis of master sample frame.
There has been recommendation of FAO that follow up surveys should be carried out using Sample frames which may help integrate data on different aspects. Further, issues relating to food security or poverty can be properly understood only if it is possible to analyse the data in comprehensive manner. However, keeping in view the conditions in each country some integration should be achieved.
BBS itself will prepare sampling frames for annual crop production, fisheries and livestock and other related survey with the adequate involvement of DAE, DoF and DLS.
Strategic actions/activities:
(i) Develop Sampling Frames to meet requirement of crop, livestock, fishery and forest surveys
(ii) Establishing a Census /Survey Methodology Wing in BBS for guiding the survey designs for the surveys to be carried out by BBS and other ministries/ department
Output 3.3 Census and Survey Calendar related to ARS followed
To facilitate long term sectoral plan, food management, estimating contribution to GDP and market price data available, there should be programme of census and survey that would be conducted regularly or ad-hock basis. Keeping this into consideration the evolved census/survey calendar (appendix-) needs to be followed.
Strategic action/activity:
(i) Conduct Agriculture, Fisheries and Livestock Census and other necessary Surveys following Census/survey calendar
(ii) Develop methodology and generate data on good agricultural practices
Output 3.4 Annual crop production survey conducted using improved methodology
The economic contribution of crop sub-sector to Gross Domestic Production annual crop production estimation is inevitable. For the sake of accurate GDP calculation, the annual crop production (acreage, yield and total production data and their economic value needs to be calculated using improved methodology. BBS has taken substantial steps to improve crop estimation methodology with the support of FAO. This also includes production forecasting fore casting and crop monitoring. The survey method has been recommended for crop forecasting. On the other hand, using econometric model as well as RS data is also recommended for crop forecasting.
Strategic action/activity:
(i) Design and prepare sampling frame and conduct annual crop production survey
Output 3.5 Annual fish production survey conducted using improved methodology
The annual production of fish is required for many purposes. One of them is to know the economic value for GDP calculation. The Department of Fisheries is currently providing this estimation using the methodology as well as sample design that requires being up-dated. After the Agriculture Census 2018, the new sampling frame will be reconstructed for reliable and authentic estimates of annual fish production. Department of Fisheries will have to take support from BBS in this regard.
Strategic actions/activities:
(i) Design and prepare sampling frame and conduct annual fish production survey (inland)
(ii) Generate annual production of marine fish
Output 3.6 Annual livestock production survey conducted using improved methodology
Bangladesh has been facing serious difficulty in getting latest and current information on output of livestock products. At present the information for years subsequent to the year Agriculture Census is carried out, is projected based on past trends and other ancillary information. This does not reflect the correct situation. There is a need to take up specific annual survey for the purpose. Thus, the activity for the purpose is to design and implement Integrated Sample Survey for Livestock Products. BBS may do this with close cooperation of Department of Livestock Services.
Strategic action/activity:
(i) Design integrated sampling frame for livestock and conduct annual survey
Output 3.7 Annual surveys on input costs of crops, fisheries and livestock conducted using improved methodology
Survey on cost of production is used mainly for the purpose of government procurement and for GDP calculations (value addition issues). As it is very important BBS needs to conduct regular input cost survey for major cereal crops and input cost survey for other crops, fisheries and livestock with certain periodicity to improve this information. For improvement of these estimates, FAO guidelines on input cost survey may be useful.
Strategic actions/activities:
(i) Design and conduct annual input cost survey for major cereals and other crops
(ii) Design and conduct input cost survey for production of fish on regular interval
(iii) Design and conduct input cost survey for livestock production on regular interval
(iv) Design and conduct survey on supply chain and value chain of crops, fisheries and livestock production
(v) Design and conduct livestock resources survey on half decadal basis
Output 3.8 Annual food balance sheet prepared
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics has recently prepared Food Balance Sheet for the years 2009 to 2013 under the support of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of United Nations. This work has to be continued and annual Food Balance sheet should be prepared for each year. A time line in this regard also should be decided.
Strategic action/activity:
(i) Prepare food balance sheet annually
Output 3.9 Survey on Private Food Grain Stock conducted
In consideration of supporting the scientific food management, annual/ad hock survey on measurement of private stock of food grain in essential. BBBS is conducting this survey for the first time in 2017 with support of FAO. BBS may follow the guidelines provided by FAO describing the sapling frame/methodology and the questionnaire of this survey. This survey is crucial as the marketable surplus of food grain can be known through this survey.
Strategic action/activity:
(i) Conduct annual/ad-hock survey on private stock of food grain survey on supply and value chain
Output 3.10 Survey of irrigation systems conducted
Bangladesh has regularly compiled information related to major large irrigation projects. The information from these projects relates to area cultivated, type of crops etc. However, the information on irrigation by minor irrigation systems is not captured. There is a need to carry out such survey so that comprehensive information on irrigation is available. There are also some issues relating to definitions and concepts used in collection of information at present. There is a need to develop survey guidelines keeping in view international standards. The survey of minor irrigation projects should be introduced.
Strategic action/activity:
(i) Develop survey guidelines and conduct survey on irrigation
Output 3.11 Survey on Land Use conducted
There is a need to adopt latest land use classification in land use surveys specially keeping in view the emerging demands from SDGs for sustainable development and measurement.
Therefore, the Land Use classification presently in use should be revisited in the context of latest guidelines and adopted.
Strategic action/activity:
(i) Revisit land use classifications and compile land use statistics
Output 3.12 Survey on forest product conducted
There are many forest products and its economic value which may not be available in other surveys. Specialized type of survey is needed to be conducted for this.
Strategic action/activity:
(i) Conduct survey on forest products
Output 3.13 New databases to measure Natural Resources (land, Water and Air) changes developed
There is increasing concern towards natural resource management, degradation of natural resources and its effect on climate change. Sustainable Development Goals have placed special emphasis on sustainability of such development processes which do not adversely affect natural resources. There are sporadic data collection on the issues relating to Soil degradation, pollution in water especially due to agricultural practices adopted or fishery activities undertaken and emission in the environment specially emission due to agriculture. There is a need to develop guidelines for collection of regular information on each of the parameters to be identified after detailed deliberations keeping in view the context of the country and international standards. The parameters have to be representative of various provinces, Zila and Upazilas so that action points may be identified. There would be requirement for interaction with the officers of the concerned Ministries/ Departments and also outside experts. International expertise may also be required for the purpose.
Strategic action/activity:
(i) Conduct survey on soil degradation, water pollution, air pollution and emission in the environment due to agriculture
The capability of Ministries/Departments dealing in agriculture related subjects is to be strengthened in producing useful and reliable statistics. It is also necessary to promote statistics friendly attitude amongst the staff dealing various subjects in these Ministries. There is a need to develop a comprehensive human resource development plan for ARS system. The human
resource plan will be based on engaging adequate work force having statistics background in BBS and Ministries/Departments to establish sound statistical system in the country.
Outputs under the goal:
(i) Qualified personnel in BBS and other ministries/departments having statistics background available
(ii) Statistical cell in planning wing of different ministries/departments established
(iii) Training facility created with faculty of agriculture statistics
(iv) Training of personnel involved in Agriculture Statistics provided
(v) Agriculture wing, BBS reorganized
(vi) Price data system of DAM strengthened
(vii) Remote Sensing Data Analysis Unit in Agriculture Wing of BBS created
Output 4.1 Qualified personnel in BBS and other ministries/departments having statistics background available
Recruiting sufficient number of statistics graduates in BBS is the prime step. In each ministry and department, statisticians should be recruited to prepare data base through systematic use of administrative data/records. For this, each ministries/department will have to create posts of statisticians in their own organizational set-up. They will work in coordination of BBS and will be able to formulate their administrative data in a systematic way. This will help in preparing data bases of their own and increase the use of statistics.
Strategic actions/activities:
(i) Increase the number of statistics graduate in recruiting statistics officer in BBS
(ii) Advocate the necessity of creating the post of statistics officer in planning wing of all ministries/agencies
Output 4.2 Statistical cell in planning wing of different ministries/departments established
A Statistical cell will be required to establish in the Planning Wing of each Ministry to assist in planning and plan formulation. Statistical officers from BCS (Statistical) cadre under the administrative control of Statistics and Informatics Division, Ministry of Planning can be appointed in these positions. These officers will work in ARS related Ministries to coordinate with BBS and other Ministries/Departments. They will also help in developing data bases by extracting the information from the administrative records according to the principles and methodologies recommended by BBS. This will create congenial working environment for effective use of administrative data for decision making. It will also help in meeting evolving demand of statistics in different Ministries/Departments in a cost effective and timely manner, and would ensure harmonization of concepts and definitions across different ARS producers.
Strategic actions/activities:
(i) Setting up of statistical cells in each ministry and reorganization of Agriculture Statistics Wing of BBS
(ii) Placing the issue to competent authority and execute
Output 4.3 Training facility created with agriculture statisticians in the faculty
A Statistical Training Academy aligned with BBS under SID is required to be established to ensure that all personnel working in the area of statistics are regularly trained and remain abreast with the latest developments. A faculty of agriculture statistics will be needed with sufficient number of members. They will develop course curriculum for short and long term training on agriculture statistics. They will also involve in research activities with agriculture, fisheries and livestock census data and contribute policy planning for the sector. Reputed national and international experts can be invited for lecturing on agriculture statistics.
The training Academy will be required to work in coordination with other related organization like Agriculture University, ISRT etc. The area of cooperation will be in designing of course curriculum, providing experts for training, establishing long term training courses etc. This can be done through signing MoU with these organizations.
Strategic actions/activities:
(i) Establishing Statistics Training Academy
(ii) Creation of Faculty of Agriculture Statistics in Training Academy with research cell
(iii) Establish coordination between Statistics Training Academy and Agriculture University and ISRT
Output 4.4 Training of personnel involved in Agriculture Statistics provided
Proper development of Agriculture and rural statistics would be possible only if the personnel engaged in the collection; compilation and analysis of the data are kept updated with the latest developments in the field. The training academy will conduct sufficient number of quality training course for BBS officials and relevant officials of other Ministries and Departments. It has to formulate short/long term training course on agriculture and rural statistics, specific training programmes for crop, fisheries, livestock and other sort of census and surveys. Faculty in this training facility should have trainers in the field of agriculture statistics. Significant activities need be taken to ensure that more trained ARS personnel are available in NSS.
Strategic actions/activities:
(i) Keep provision for training on agricultural statistics in the NSS training plan
(ii) Prepare training plans and update every year
(iii) Prepare training course, modules and curricula
(iv) Implement training plans
(v) Strengthen capacity to produce agriculture statisticians
Apart from training in Bangladesh, there would be need for regular updating the personnel through participation in international training, workshop and conferences.
Output 4.5 Agriculture Wing in BBS reorganized
There is increasing activity in horticulture, livestock and fishery sector in the country. BBS in its agriculture wing is not in a position to adequately focus in generation of statistics in these sectors. Statistics generated from the concerned Ministries is also at times not timely and not in accordance with fundamental principles of official statistics. To address the weakness effectively, it is felt that the present agriculture wing may be divided in two wings: (i) Agriculture Statistics (Crops and Land use) Wing, and (ii) Agriculture Statistics (Fisheries, Livestock & Others) Wing. Agriculture Statistics (Crops and land use) Wing will handle only crops and land use statistics which will include crop production, horticulture and vegetable crops including spices etc. Agriculture Statistics (Fisheries, Livestock and Others) Wing will handle statistics relating to livestock, fisheries, forestry and others.
Strategic actions/activities:
(i) Review of strength of staff in agriculture wing of BBS in the context of added responsibility to produce core statistics recommended by FAO
(ii) Identification of shortages with specific nature of jobs
(iii) Creation of two wings- Crop and Fisheries, Livestock, Forestry & others
(iv) Approval for creation of posts
(v) Filling of posts
Output 4.6 Agriculture Price Data System of DAM Strengthened
Considering the necessity of strengthening the agriculture price information system is very important to strengthen Department of Agricultural Marketing (DAM) to improve price data collection System of Agricultural Produces. Existing staff in DAM is not adequate for collecting price information to capture price volatility at Upazila level. Strengthening is required for supporting and protecting farmers’ interest as well as sustainable agricultural development.
Strategic actions/activities:
(i) Expand the organizational structure of Department of Agriculture Marketing (DAM)
(ii) Improve data collection methodology by DAM with support of BBS
(iii) Conduct ad-hock survey by DAM for collecting price data
Output 4.7 Remote Sensing Data Analysis Unit in Agriculture Wing of BBS created
A unit of Spatial Data Analysis under proposed Agriculture Economics Statistics (Crops) Wing will be required for improvement of crop area and land use statistics. The unit will also use satellite data in conjunction with data on meteorology, soil condition, temperature etc. Adequate number of experts will be required for the purpose.
Strategic actions/activities:
(i) Creation of remote sensing unit in proposed Agriculture Economics Statistics (Crops and land use) Wing
(ii) Generate RS based crop statistics
Conduct of surveys on agriculture related subjects is primary activity for generation of ARS. Survey work is carried out by BBS and Agriculture related Ministries / Departments throughout the year. Availability of reliable and timely data is possible only through the use of ICT. Therefore, there is a need to develop required infrastructure in BBS and other data collecting organization like DoF, DAM both in the field and headquarter. Personal Data Assistant / tablets/ laptops need be used for collection of data from the field. The data should be transferred from the field using telecommunication network and should be processed and compiled at the headquarter of these Ministries. For BBS, agriculture data may be processed and compiled in agriculture wing with the help of ICT trained personnel. This will facilitate quick dissemination and timely use of data. Using the ICT would result in minimization of cost and time, and also substantial reduction in non-sampling errors.
Outputs under the goal:
(i) Statistical products generated using ICT tools
(ii) Infrastructure for using GIS and Remote sensing techniques developed
(iii) Meta data on each AR statistics product available
(iv) Visibility of AR statistical product in public domain improved
(v) Data sharing protocols developed
(vi) Integrated data dissemination platform established
Output 5.1 Statistical products generated using ICT tools
There has been increasing use of ICT tools in collection, compilation processing and dissemination of statistics. This capability should be further strengthened. There are number of ICT tools available for Data Collection. CAPI of the World Bank is one tool. There are many similar products available in the market. There is a need to assess this tool and suitably adopt in data collection process. These tools may also be required to be customised to meet the requirement of a particular survey. Internet based systems may have to be developed to transfer the data from the field to a server after due validation. Such system will have to be introduced for each of the survey undertaken by BBS and the Ministries/ Department dealing in agriculture and rural statistics.
Strategic action/activity:
(i) Use of GIS/ Remote Sensing and other ICT applications for collection of agriculture related statistics
Output 5.2 Infrastructure for using GIS and Remote Sensing data developed
GIS and Remote Sensing technology is currently used for generating land use information. It is commonly used for estimating crop area and for estimating crop yield even. The RS technology is useful for production forecasting and crop monitoring. In Bangladesh SPARSO is generating area coverage for boro and aman crop. However, the information for other crops is not available due to pre-occupation of SPARSO with its own mandate. Further the Geographic information need be further analysed with data from meteorology and related departments. It is therefore necessary that an inter-disciplinary crop forecasting mechanism is to be developed in coordination of agriculture wing of BBS. BBS needs a set-up of RS for providing crop coverage as this activity is prominent in agriculture statistics.
Strategic actions/activities:
(i) Develop required infrastructure
(ii) Human capacity building for use of GIS and Remote sensing
(iii) Develop integrated data management system
Output 5.3 Meta data on each AR statistical product available
Proper documentation of metadata needs to be preserved in all statistical activities incorporating information like (i) Data Collecting Agency, (ii) Data Collecting Frequency, (iii) Data Collection Methodology, (iv) Data Collection Staff, (v) Sample Size, (vi) Sample Selection (vii) Frame, (viii) Data Collected, (ix) Data Processing, (x) Data Dissemination, (xi) Level of disaggregation, (xii) Timeliness of data release, (xiii) Latest data available etc.
Strategic action/activity:
(i) Prepare of meta data of each AR statistical product
Output 5.4 Visibility of AR statistical product in public domain improved
A good coordinated system of data sharing and dissemination is proposed to be established so that the user can easily find the data in a same web-page getting the links of the relevant data.
Strategic actions/activities:
(i) Improve user participation in AR statistics usage, identification of new data needs and further action
(ii) Organize Agriculture and Rural data user’s workshop
(iii) Establish a modality to measure user satisfaction
Output 5.5 Data sharing protocols developed
The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics will need to develop data sharing protocols with national and international agencies. This will create more visibility of data. The scope of deeper analysis and uses of data will be increased that will further improve planning process.
Strategic actions/activities:
(i) Disseminate data in common management
(ii) Prepare Rules and Regulations of data sharing
Output 5.6 Integrated data dissemination platform established
An integrated approach should be followed in dissemination of agricultural and rural statistics where BBS and all the relevant Ministries/ Department would participate. This would require a coordinated arrangement on behalf of the Government where BBS will play central role. A national Data Repository on ARS shall be established in BBS. ARS data would be accessible to the users and stakeholders through the website of BBS which will provide linkages with the websites of other relevant Ministries. The arrangement of such sharing will be developed by signing of MOU between BBS and other Ministries.
Strategic action/activity:
(i) Create central data hub with BBS’s coordination
Detailed Strategic goal-wise outputs, strategic actions/activities and objectively verifiable indicators are presented in the Logical Framework Document at Annex-IV.
5.1 Implementation of SPARS
5.1.1 Strategic plan on ARS is a document for future activities for meeting the national and international demand for data confirming to the global standard. The future activities must be executed through institutional process and the institutional responsibilities shall be distributed to implement the projected activities in a timely manner. The plan will help to implement the programme effectively and efficiently. The activities and Objectively Verifiable Indicators have been listed in Logical Framework for each implementing institutions for achieving the strategic goals of SPARS. The ARS will meet the requirement for policy makers, development organizations and measure the performance indicators of specific sectors through implementation plan and appropriately execution of plan.
5.1.2 SPARS will be implemented by the Government of Bangladesh through BBS being the focal organization and all the agriculture related Ministries/ Departments. Responsibility for implementation on each of the activities identified in Logical Framework will have to be assigned to each agency under the guidance of Coordination and Monitoring Committee. Apart from technical issues, this committee will also ensure that adequate resources, both financial and human, are provided for implementation. The Committee may setup sub-committees or technical working groups keeping in view the need for an activity and kind of guidance / assistance required. The Committee will review on the progress of work done and provide guidelines for implementation.
5.2 Monitoring & Evaluation
5.2.1 There should be a monitoring strategy for SPARS. It is expected that BBS as the custodian of SPARS should keep track of the implementation of SPARS activities with support from other line ministries. The Objectively Verifiable Indicators listed in the Logical Framework for SPARS should be used for monitoring purposes. Apart from half yearly review of the progress, Mid-term review of the progress may be done by the coordination and monitoring committee so that any course correction, if required, may be done.
5.2.2 As the SPARS is designed to improve the agriculture and rural statistics, it will require to establish the follow-up process for proper implementation of SPARS. For this, a national committee headed by Secretary, Statistics and Informatics Division is recommended to form where Director General, BBS may act as Co-chair of the committee. The committee will include the main stakeholders of agriculture and rural statistics. The committee will evaluate the progress of implementation of SPARS for monitoring and provide guidelines to BBS for achieving the SPARS goals.
5.3 Financing
5.3.1 Immediate External Resource requirement 2017-2020
At present the external resource requirement has been identified on two items: Agricultural Census and setting up of crop forecasting centre. Details are given below:
1. Agricultural Census 2018
At this stage most important priority for the Government is to conduct an Integrated Agriculture (Crop, Livestock, Fishery and Forestry) Census planned for 2018. The project document is yet to be approved with a proposed budget BDT 34.50 million. This activity is the basis of establishment of Integrated National Survey Calendar based upon Sampling Frames. Keeping in view the technical support to other similar Censuses, it is expected that there will be a need for about USD 0.75 to 1 million. This assistance would be required on items like Census Planning (USD 150 thousand), Conduct of Census (USD 100 thousand), trainings and study tours (USD 50 thousand), IT hardware and software (USD 100 thousand), tabulation and dissemination (USD 200 thousand), Establishments of sampling frames (USD 100 thousand) and Data archiving, fine tuning survey calendar and preparing appropriate sampling designs etc.
5.3.2 Financing through Five Year Plans
The main thrust of BBS work in the next three years will be conduct of Agricultural Census which is a major national undertaking. A clearer picture of partnerships and Work Plan will emerge during/after the census, particularly on fish and livestock sub-sectors.
The implementation of SPARS will be reviewed sometimes in 2019, and revised SPARS would have more precise work plan of activities. At that stage it will also be possible to estimate the resource requirements more precisely as scope of many statistical activities would have been clarified by that time. It is also expected that SPARS will be fully integrated in the Eighth Five Year Plan. The planning for the eighth plan (2021-25) will begin in 2019. Based on clearer picture at that time, line ministries may also propose for funding SPARS activities through their national budget.
5.4 Advocacy
4.1.1 It is expected that the SPARS document will be endorsed through due government process involving all the stakeholders. After this is accepted as a government document, consultative sessions will be organized with development partners to elicit their interest in supporting any of the identified activities.
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ANNEX-I: LIST OF MINISTRIES/ORGANIZATIONS ALIGNED WITH ARS
SL. No | Ministries /Departments | Relevant Core Data Items | Statistics generated by |
01. | Statistics and Informatics Division | Rural Urban Demographics, Household Income Expenditure & Consumption Status, Rural-urban Migration | MoP, SID, BBS |
02 | Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics | Rural Urban Demographics, Household Income Expenditure & Consumption Status, Rural-urban Migration | MoP, SID, BBS |
03. | Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) | Land Use and soil, Area and Yield of Crops (irrigated and variety), Input Cost of Crop Production, Irrigation, Pesticide, Insecticide, Fertilizer, Agriculture Labour Wage, Food Storage/ Stock, Price of Agriculture Products, Seed, Feed, Wastage, Food Balance Sheet, Employment Generation / Gender, Agriculture Land Ownership, Agriculture Credit, Food Processing, Value Chain, Food Consumption and Nutrition Data Needs for Good Agricultural Practices (GAP), Food Safety, and Sustainable Agriculture | BBS, DAE, MoA, DAM, BADC, MoFood, LGD |
04. | Department of Agricultural Extension |
05. | Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation |
06. | Ministry of Food |
07. | Food Planning and Monitoring Unit |
08. | Space Research and Remote Sensing Organization |
| Department of Agricultural Marketing |
10. | Ministry of Finance | Budget for Agriculture Sector | MoF |
11. | Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock | Fish and Aquaculture Production, Input Cost of Fish Production, Inputs and Instruments, Agro-processing and Value Chain, Prices, Employment Generation | DoF, BBS |
12. | Department of Fisheries |
13. | Department of Livestock Services | Livestock and Poultry Production, Age- specific Population of key Livestock and Poultry, Feed and Fodder, Livestock Resources Survey, Input Cost of Livestock and Poultry Production, Processing and Value Chain, Prices, Employment Generation | BBS, DLS |
14. | Bangladesh Bank | Export-import Data of Agricultural Products | BB, BBS |
15. | Ministry of Water Resources | Water Used for Irrigation, | MoWR, |
SL. No | Ministries /Departments | Relevant Core Data Items | Statistics generated by |
16. | Bangladesh Water Development Board | (natural/mechanized) | BWDB |
17. | Ministry of Environment and Forestry | Soil Degradation, Water Pollution, Air Pollution, Emission | MoEF, SRDI |
18. | Department of Environment |
19. | Bangladesh Forest Department | Forest Area, Forest Produce (Main / minor), Employment Generation | BFD |
20. | Bangladesh Meteorological Department | Average rainfall, average temperature, sunlight statistics, flood, cyclones | BMD |
21. | Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co- Operatives | Rural infrastructure, Road Communication in Rural Areas, Rural Electrification, Rural Credit, Railway Communication, ICT Infrastructure | MoLGRD, LGED, BRDB, BREB, BKB, PKSF, BR, BBS |
22. | Ministry of ICT |
23. | ICT Division |
24. | Local Government Division |
25. | Local Government Engineering Department |
26. | Bangladesh Rural Development Board (BRDB) |
27. | Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB) |
28. | Bangladesh Railway |
29. | Bangladesh Krishi Bank |
30. | Polly Karmo Shahayak Foundation |
ANNEX-II: INTEGRATED CENSUS AND SURVEY CALENDAR
Integrated Census and Survey Calendar |
| Name of Census/Survey | Frequency | Status |
A. CORE ARS CENSUS AND SURVEYS |
A1 | Integrated Agriculture Census including supplementary Modules on Crops, Livestock, Fisheries etc. | Decadal | On-going |
| A2. CROPS | | |
A2.1 | Survey on Area and Yield (6 Major and 120 Minor Crops) | Annual | On-going |
A2.2 | Survey on Forecasting of Crop Production | Annual | On-going |
A2.3 | Survey on Summer Vegetable Crops | Annual | On-going |
A2.4 | Survey on Winter Vegetable Crops | Annual | On-going |
A2.5 | Survey on Fruit Crops | Annual | On-going |
A2.6 | Survey on Pulse Crops | Annual | On-going |
A2.7 | Survey on Farm Machinery | Ad-hoc | Proposed |
A2.8 | Survey on Quantity of Private Food Grain Stock | Ad-hoc | Proposed |
A2.9 | Survey on Agricultural Labour Wage | Monthly | On-going |
A2.10 | Cost of Production and Input Use Survey on Important Crops | Annually for selected crops | On-going |
| A3. LIVESTOCK | | |
A3.1 | Specific Surveys on Livestock Products (Meat, Milk, Eggs etc.) | Annual | Proposed |
A3.2 | Cost of Production and Input use for Livestock Products | Annual | Proposed |
A3.3 | Livestock Resources Survey | Half decadal | Proposed |
| A4. FISHERIES | | |
A4.1 | Fisheries Resources Surveys | Decadal | Proposed |
A4.2 | Fisheries Frame Survey (Instruments and Means of production) | Quarterly | Proposed |
A4.3 | Survey on Cost of Production and Inputs in Aquaculture | Annual | Proposed |
A4.4 | Fish Production Surveys (Culture and Capture) | Annual | On-going |
| A5. ENVIRONMENT, FORESTRY & NATURAL RESOURCES | | |
A5.1 | National Socioeconomic Surveys on Forestry | Ad-hoc | Proposed |
A5.2 | National Forest Inventory (Reserve and Social) | Ad-hoc | Proposed |
A5.3 | Supply and Demand of Forest Products | Ad-hoc | Proposed |
A5.4 | Social Forestry Survey | Ad-hoc | Proposed |
A5.5 | Non-timber Forest Products (Wood, Honey etc.) | Ad-hoc | Proposed |
A5.6 | Fuel wood Consumption Survey | Ad-hoc | Proposed |
A5.7 | Forest Based Industries and Machineries | Ad-hoc | Proposed |
Integrated Census and Survey Calendar |
| Name of Census/Survey | Frequency | Status |
A. CORE ARS CENSUS AND SURVEYS |
A5.8 | Afforestation and Deforestation | Ad-hoc | Proposed |
A5.9 | Survey on Natural Resources (Including Soil Degradation, Water Pollution, Mineral Extraction etc.) | Ad-hoc | Proposed |
| A6. AGRICULTURE MARKETING | | |
A6.1 | Survey on Farm-gate and Market Prices of Agriculture Produce | Annual | Proposed |
A6.2 | Survey on Supply and Value Chain of Private Stock of Food Grains | Ad-hoc | On-going |
| A7. RURAL ACTIVITIES | | |
A7.1 | Survey on Agro. Processing Activities | Half decadal | Proposed |
A7.2 | Survey on Small and Cottage Industries | Half decadal | Proposed |
A7.3 | Rural Infrastructure and Community Survey (along with Agriculture Census) | Decadal | Proposed |
| B. OTHER CENSUS AND SURVEYS CONTRIBUTING TO ARS | | |
| B1. Census Contributing to ARS | | |
B1.1 | Population and Housing Census | Decadal | On-going |
B1.2 | Economic Census | Decadal | On-going |
B1.3 | Marginalized Community Census | Ad-hoc | On-going |
| B2. Survey Contributing to ARS and Official Statistics from Other Sources | | |
B2.1 | Inter-censal Survey on Demographic and Social Indicator | Annual | On-going |
B2.2 | Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) | Regular Interval | On-going |
B2.3 | Literacy Assessment Survey | Annual | On-going |
B2.4 | Labour Force Survey | Quarterly | On-going |
B2.5 | Survey on Food Security and Nutrition, Disability and Morbidity | Once in 3 Years | Proposed |
B2.6 | Time Use Survey | Ad-hoc | Proposed |
B2.7 | Survey on Seed, Feed and Wastage (For Food Balance Sheet) | Ad-hoc | Proposed |
B2.8 | Survey on Whole sale and Retail Trade | Half decadal | Proposed |
B2.9 | Survey of Manufacturing Industries | Half decadal | Proposed |
B2.10 | Land Use Survey | Annual | Proposed |
B2.11 | Rural Credit Survey | Ad-hoc | On-going |
B2.12 | Statistics on Government Expenditure for Agriculture and Rural Development (Including Agricultural Subsidy) | Annual | Proposed |
B2.13 | Statistics on Rural Roads, Highways, Railway, Rural Electrification, Storages Facilities of Agricultural Produces | Ad-hoc | Proposed |
B2.14 | Irrigation Statistics for Crop Cultivation (Mechanized, Non- mechanized, Surface water and Underground Water) | Ad-hoc | Proposed |
B2.15 | Fertilizer Statistics (Coverage Type, Quantity, Price, Organic, Inorganic etc.) | Ad-hoc | Proposed |
B2.16 | Statistics on Use of Pesticides, Insecticides etc. | Ad-hoc | Proposed |
B2.17 | Statistics on Seeds | Ad-hoc | Proposed |
ANNEX-III: LOGICAL FRAMEWORK FOR BANGLADESH SPARS (2016-2030)
Outputs and Strategic Actions (Activities) | Objectively Verifiable Indicators | Target Year | Implementing Agency/ Ministry | Means of Verification/ Source of data | Assumptions and risks |
Strategic Goal 1: Improve competencies of National Statistical System to produce and disseminate core set of ARS in accordance with international standards and best practices |
Output | 1.1 | Competencies of NSS Strengthened | | | | | |
Activity | 1.1.1 | Produce and disseminate reliable and timely agriculture statistics | Reliable and timely Reports published | 2018 and onward | BBS, SID | Annual report (AR) DAE, DoF, DLS | Availability of resources |
Activity | 1.1.2 | Use up-to-date methodologies in surveys and censuses | Up-to-date methodologies are used | 2018 and onward | BBS, SID | Concerned organizations | Continuation of review process |
Activity | 1.1.3 | Provide guidance to other organizations producing statistics | Optimum coordination among ministries/agencies achieved | 2017 and onward | BBS SID | DAE, DoF, DLS, DAM (AR) | BBS is to be capable in providing technical guidance |
Activity | 1.1.4 | Improve professionalism of BBS personnel | BBS performs its job in efficient and effective manner | 2017 and onward | BBS SID | | Reorganization of BBS & adequate training needed |
Activity | 1.1.5 | Meet the demand of stakeholders properly | Continue consultation with stakeholders | 2017 and onward | BBS | | Continued data demand assessment needed |
Output | 1.2 | Enhanced use of official statistics in planning /decision making process | | | | | |
Activity | 1.2.1 | Involve statisticians in medium/long term planning document of the country | Inclusion of statisticians in preparing policy document | 2018 and onward | BBS GED | GED | Coordination between BBS and GED needed |
Activity | 1.2.2 | Ensure enhanced use of official statistics in administrative management | Related government circular issued, evidence based decision making process established | 2018 and onward | All ministries and agencies | All ministries and agencies (AR) | Government support in evidence based decision making needed |
ANNEX-III: LOGICAL FRAMEWORK FOR BANGLADESH SPARS (2016-2030)
Outputs and Strategic Actions (Activities) | Objectively Verifiable Indicators | Target Year | Implementing Agency/ Ministry | Means of Verification/ Source of data | Assumptions and risks |
Activity | 1.2.3 | Enhance involvement of statisticians in preparing sector-specific plan | Statisticians assigned in sector specific plan | 2018 and onward | BBS and concerned ministries/ agencies | Concerned ministries/agencies (AR) | Optimum cooperation between BBS and concerned ministries/agencies needed |
Output | 1.3 | All ARS products follow international standards and quality | | | | | |
Activity | 1.3.1 | Review the concepts, definitions adopted in collection of ARS in BBS and aligned ministries/agencies | Review report on each ARS product | 2017-18 | BBS | BBS and concerned departments | Cooperation among ministries/agencies needed |
Activity | 1.3.2 | Follow the principles of official statistics set by UNSD | Principles of statistics are followed | 2018 and onward | BBS SID | | All ministries/agencies need to be acquainted with UN principles |
Activity | 1.3.3 | Review statistical process adopted in producing ARS | Review report on each process for ARS product | 2017-19 | BBS | BBS | Government approval needed |
Activity | 1.3.4 | Assess quality of ARS produced and suggest methods for improvement | Assessment report on the quality of ARS product along with suggested methodology | 2017 | BBS | BBS SID (AR) | BBS initiative is essential |
Output | 1.4 | National Quality Assurance Framework (NQAF) for ARS Developed | | | | | |
Activity | 1.4.1 | Identify international standards and guidelines for each ARS product | Report on each ARS product followed standards | 2017 | Concerned ministries & BBS | Concerned ministries and BBS | BBS initiative is essential |
Activity | 1.4.2 | Evaluation of existing process for generation of the product in the context of international guidelines | Assessment report on each ARS product | 2017 | BBS | BBS | BBS initiative is essential |
ANNEX-III: LOGICAL FRAMEWORK FOR BANGLADESH SPARS (2016-2030)
Outputs and Strategic Actions (Activities) | Objectively Verifiable Indicators | Target Year | Implementing Agency/ Ministry | Means of Verification/ Source of data | Assumptions and risks |
Output | 1.5 | Core-set of indicators available according to GSARS | | | | | |
Activity | 1.5.1 | Evaluate existing data availability to GSARS | Check list of available data prepared | 2018 | BBS SID | BBS, DAE, DoF DLS, DAM, BFD Other relevant agencies | Continuous effort of BBS & approval of SID needed |
Activity | 1.5.2 | Identify data gap to GSARS | List of new data item prepared | 2018 | BBS SID | BBS, DAE, DoF DLS, DAM, BFD Other relevant agencies (AR) | Continuous effort of BBS is needed |
Activity | 1.5.3 | Conduct new survey and taking proper steps to transform administrative records into official statistics | Reports available | 2018 and onward | BBS | BBS, DAE, DoF DLS, DAM, BFD Other relevant agencies | Availability of government approval, resource |
Output | 1.6 | Updated methodologies/best practices followed by other countries adopted | | | | | |
Activity | 1.6.1 | Adopt updated methodologies/best practices followed by other countries | Updated methodologies/ best practices | 2018 And onward | BBS | BBS, DAE, DoF DLS, DAM, BFD Other relevant agencies (AR) | Availability of government approval |
Activity | 1.6.2 | Review and improve existing methodology used by BBS in regular interval | Continue evaluation process for improving methodology | 2018 And onward | BBS | BBS, DAE, DoF DLS, DAM, BFD Other relevant agencies (AR) | Policy decision of SID needed |
ANNEX-III: LOGICAL FRAMEWORK FOR BANGLADESH SPARS (2016-2030)
Outputs and Strategic Actions (Activities) | Objectively Verifiable Indicators | Target Year | Implementing Agency/ Ministry | Means of Verification/ Source of data | Assumptions and risks |
Activity | 1.6.3 | Organize/participate in national/international seminars on methodological issues | Greater number of BBS officials participated | 2018 And onward | BBS | BBS, DAE, DoF DLS, DAM, BFD Other relevant agencies (AR) | Support of government and UN agencies needed |
Activity | 1.6.4 | Involve academia/ experts in designing and implementing census/surveys | Academia/experts involved in BBS activities | 2018 And onward | BBS | BBS, DAE, DoF DLS, DAM, BFD Other relevant agencies (AR) | BBS needs to take necessary measures |
Strategic Goal 2: Strengthen partnership and coordination among Ministries / Departments and attain harmonized definitions and statistical practices to efficiently produce coherent ARS |
Output | 2.1 | Efficient production of coherent and consistent agriculture and rural statistics | | | | | |
Activity | 2.1.1 | Development of integrated calendar for census and surveys for ARS | Integrated census/survey calendar prepared and published | 2017 | BBS and other relevant agencies | BBS and other relevant agencies | BBS needs to take necessary steps |
Activity | 2.1.2 | Organize regular training with updated manual for field staff | Manual updated and required training organized | 2017 and onward | BBS, DAE, DoF, DLS, DAM | BBS, DAE, DoF DLS, DAM (AR) | Resources availability |
Output | 2.2 | Improved coordination between BBS and other data producing agencies of ARS | | | | | |
Activity | 2.2.1 | Setting up coordinating body under the Statistics Act,2013 on all matters relating to Agriculture and Rural Statistics | Form coordinating body with clear terms of reference and membership | 2017 | BBS | | Approval of SID is needed |
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Outputs and Strategic Actions (Activities) | Objectively Verifiable Indicators | Target Year | Implementing Agency/ Ministry | Means of Verification/ Source of data | Assumptions and risks |
Activity | 2.2.2 | Establish partnership with ministries/ departments and delegation of responsibility relating to production and release of ARS to each concerned ministry/ department | MoU signed with relevant ministries/agencies | 2018 and onwards | BBS, DAE, DoF DLS, DAM, BFD Other relevant agencies | BBS SID | Good coordination among ministries/agencies needed |
Activity | 2.2.3 | Establish coordination through MoU for defining responsibilities | ToR of different partner agencies prepared and shared | 2018 and onward | BBS, DAE, DoF DLS, DAM,BFD Other relevant agencies | BBS SID | Good coordination among ministries/agencies needed |
Activity | 2.2.4 | Appoint focal point official of line ministry/department to BBS for coordination | Focal Point Official appointed | 2018 and onward | BBS, DAE, DoF DLS, DAM, BFD Other relevant agencies | BBS SID | Initiatives of concerned ministries/agencies needed |
Output | 2.3 | Harmonized concepts and definitions used by all ministries/agencies of ARS | | | | | |
Activity | 2.3.1 | Prepare compendium of standard concepts and definitions on ARS | Compendium prepared and published | 2017- 2018 | BBS | BBS and related departments | BBS’s initiative needed |
Activity | 2.3.2 | Update concepts and definitions in accordance with the recommendations of international agencies | Review concepts and definitions regularly | 2017 and onward | BBS SID | BBS and related departments | BBS’s initiative needed |
Activity | 2.3.3 | Conduct review meeting with stakeholder | Meeting conducted with stakeholders | 2018 and onward | 2017 and onward | BBS, SID and other concerned ministries/ agencies | Approval of SID needed |
Output | 2.4 | More administrative data used as official statistics | | | | | |
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Outputs and Strategic Actions (Activities) | Objectively Verifiable Indicators | Target Year | Implementing Agency/ Ministry | Means of Verification/ Source of data | Assumptions and risks |
Activity | 2.4.1 | Develop new statistical products from administrative system of agriculture related ministries | Methodology developed for the new product and put in practice | 2017 and onward | BBS, SID, DAE, DoF, DLS,BFD DAM, Other agencies | MoA, DAE, MoFL, DoF, DLS, DAM, BFD Other relevant agencies | Policy support of government needed |
Activity | 2.4.2 | Collaborate line ministries/agencies to preserve administrative records systematically | Issue government circular for preserving administrative records | 2017 and onward | BBS, DAE, DoF DLS, DAM, DF Other relevant agencies | MoA, DAE, MoFL, DoF, DLS, DAM, BFD Other relevant agencies(AR) | Policy support of government needed |
Output | 2.5 | Increased participation of stakeholders for assessing data demand | | | | | |
Activity | 2.5.1 | Conduct ad-hock survey on data demand | Ad-hock survey conducted and findings disseminated | 2017 and onward | BBS SID | MoA, DAE, MoFL, DoF, DLS, DAM, BFD Other relevant agencies | Government approval needed |
Activity | 2.5.2 | Organize consultation meeting/workshop on use of agricultural and rural statistics | Consultation meeting/workshop organized | 2017 and onward | BBS SID | MoA, DAE, MoFL, DoF, DLS, DAM, BFD Other relevant agencies Others | Support of government and international agencies needed |
Activity | 2.5.3 | Assess SDG indicators/other relevant policy documents and determine data gap | Report on assessment of SDG and other documents published | 2016 and onward | BBS SID | MoA, DAE, MoFL, DoF, DLS, DAM, BFD Other relevant agencies | Government effort needed |
Strategic Goal 3: Strengthen capacity to adopt cost effective and scientific survey methodology using sampling frame based on Censuses |
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Outputs and Strategic Actions (Activities) | Objectively Verifiable Indicators | Target Year | Implementing Agency/ Ministry | Means of Verification/ Source of data | Assumptions and risks |
Output | 3.1 | Structural data on crops, livestock and fisheries are available generated from related censuses | | | | | |
Activity | 3.1.1 | Conduct Agricultural Census covering crops, fisheries and livestock sub- sectors | Agriculture Census results disseminated | 2017-2021 | BBS SID | BBS, SID, MoA MoFL, DAE DOF, DLS | Government approval and resource needed |
Output | 3.2 | Sampling Frames using census data base for annual survey on production of crop, fisheries and livestock developed | | | | | |
Activity | 3.2.1 | Develop Sampling Frames to meet requirement of crop, livestock, fishery and forestry surveys | Survey carried out annually and results disseminated | 2018 and onward | BBS, SID DOF | BBS, SID, MoA MoFL, DAE DoF, DLS (AR) | Government approval and resource needed |
Activity | 3.2.2 | Establishing a Census/Survey Methodology Wing in BBS | Methodology Wing established | 2019 and onward | BBS SID | | Better coordination among agencies needed |
Output | 3.3 | Census and Survey Calendar related to ARS followed | | | | | |
Activity | 3.3.1 | Conduct census/survey following the calendar | Census/ survey conducted as per Calendar | 2017 and onward | BBS, DoF BFD, DAM | DAE DLS | Government approval and resource needed |
Activity | 3.3.2 | Develop methodology and generate data on good agricultural practices | Agriculture census reports, Administrative report | 2017-2018 | BBS, DAE, DoF and DLS | DAE, DoF and DLS | Resources are available |
Output | 3.4 | Annual Crop production survey conducted using improved methodology | | | | | |
Activity | 3.4.1 | Design and prepare sampling frame and conduct annual crop production | Sampling frame prepared and annual crop production survey conducted | 2018 and onward | BBS SID | DAE SPARRSO | Availability of resources |
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Outputs and Strategic Actions (Activities) | Objectively Verifiable Indicators | Target Year | Implementing Agency/ Ministry | Means of Verification/ Source of data | Assumptions and risks |
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Output | 3.5 | Annual fish production survey conducted using improved methodology | | | | | |
Activity | 3.5.1 | Design and prepare sampling frame and conduct annual fish production survey (inland) | Sampling frame prepared and annual fish production survey conducted | 2018 and onward | BBS, DoF SID MoFL | | Availability of resources |
Activity | 3.5.2 | Generate annual production of marine fish | Annual marine fish production data generated | 2018 and onward | DoF MoFL | | Availability of resources |
Output | 3.6 | Annual livestock production survey conducted using improved methodology | | | | | |
Activity | 3.6.1 | Design integrated sampling frame for livestock and conduct annual survey | Survey carried out annually and results disseminated | 2018 and onward | BBS DLS | | Availability of resources |
Output | 3.7 | Annual survey on input cost of Crops, fisheries and livestock and their value chains conducted using improved methodology | | | | | |
Activity | 3.7.1 | Design and conduct annual input cost survey for major cereals and other crops | Survey carried out annually and results disseminated | 2019 and onward | BBS SID | MoA | Availability of resources |
Activity | 3.7.2 | Design and conduct input cost survey for production of fish on regular interval | Survey carried out once in 5 year and results disseminated | 2019 and onward | DoF MoFL BBS | | Availability of resources |
Activity | 3.7.3 | Design and conduct input cost survey for livestock production on regular interval | Survey carried out once in 5 year and results disseminated | 2019 and onward | BBS | DLS MoFL (AR) | Availability of resources |
Activity | 3.7.4 | Design and conduct survey on supply chain and value chain of crops, fisheries and livestock production | Survey carried out once in 5 year and results disseminated | 2019 and onward | BBS | DAM (AR) | Availability of resources |
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Outputs and Strategic Actions (Activities) | Objectively Verifiable Indicators | Target Year | Implementing Agency/ Ministry | Means of Verification/ Source of data | Assumptions and risks |
Activity | 3.7.5 | Conduct Livestock Resources Survey | Survey carried out once in 5 year and results disseminated | 2019 and onward | BBS, DLS | DLS | Availability of resources |
Output | 3.8 | Annual Food Balance Sheet (FBS) prepared | | | | | |
Activity | 3.8.1 | Prepare Food Balance Sheet (FBS) annually | Food Balance Sheet published | 2017 and onward | BBS | DoF, BB, EPB, FAO others | Availability of resources |
Output | 3.9 | Survey on private food grain stock (supply and value chains) conducted | | | | | |
Activity | 3.9.1 | Conduct annual/ad-hock survey on Private Stock of Food Grain survey on supply and value chain | Survey on private stock of food grain supply and value chain conducted | 2017 2019 | BBS | FPMU MoF DAM (AR) | Availability of resources |
Output | 3.10 | Survey of irrigation system conducted | | | | | |
Activity | 3.10.1 | Develop survey guidelines and conduct survey on irrigation | Survey conducted on Irrigation/administrative data compiled | 2017 and onward | BBS | DAE (AR) | Resources are available |
Output | 3.11 | Survey on land use conducted | | | | | |
Activity | 3.11.1 | Revisit the land use classifications and compile land use statistics | Survey conducted on land use/ Administrative data compiled | 2018 and onward | BBS | DLR (AR) | Continuous effort of BBS needed |
Output | 3.12 | Survey on forest product conducted | | | | | |
Activity | 3.12.1 | Conduct survey on forest products | Carry out survey on inventory of forests once in ten years | 2018 and onward | BFD BBS | | Resources are available |
Output | 3.13 | New databases to measure Natural Resources (Land, Water and Air) | | | | | |
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Outputs and Strategic Actions (Activities) | Objectively Verifiable Indicators | Target Year | Implementing Agency/ Ministry | Means of Verification/ Source of data | Assumptions and risks |
| | changes developed | | | | | |
Activity | 3.13.1 | Conduct survey on soil degradation, water pollution, air pollution and emission in the environment due to agriculture | Related survey conducted and data released | 2018 and onward | SRDI, MOA DoE, MOEF MODMR | | Resources are available |
Strategic Goal 4: Develop a comprehensive human resources and capacity building mechanism with corresponding organizational setup |
Output | 4.1 | Qualified personnel in BBS and other ministries/departments having statistics background available | | | | | |
Activity | 4.1.1 | Increase the number of statistics graduate in recruiting statistics officer in BBS | More statistics graduates recruited as statistics officer/statistician | 2018 and onward | BBS, SID MOP, MOPA MOF | | Government approval and resources needed |
Activity | 4.1.2 | Advocate the necessity of creating the post of statistics officer in planning wing of all ministries/agencies | Advocacy meeting organized and communication continues | 2018 and onward | BBS, SID MOPA, All other ministries agencies | | Government approval needed |
Output | 4.2 | Statistical cells in each ministries/department related with ARS established | | | | | |
Activity | 4.2.1 | Setting up of statistical cells in each ministries and reorganization of agriculture statistics wing in BBS | Statistics cells created with necessary trained personnel; Agriculture Wing of BBS reorganized | 2018 and onward | Concerned Ministries BBS, SID MOPA | | Government approval needed |
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Outputs and Strategic Actions (Activities) | Objectively Verifiable Indicators | Target Year | Implementing Agency/ Ministry | Means of Verification/ Source of data | Assumptions and risks |
Activity | 4.2.2 | Placing the issue to competent authority and execute | Recommendation placed to competent authority | 2018 and onward | BBS SID | | Continuous effort of BBS and SID needed |
Output | 4.3 | Training facility created with agriculture statistics in the faculty | | | | | |
Activity | 4.3.1 | Establishing Statistics Training Academy | Statistics Training Academy established | 2018 and onward | BBS, SID MOP, MOF | BAU ISRT | Government approval and resources needed |
Activity | 4.3.2 | Creation of Faculty of Agriculture Statistics in Training Academy with research cell | Faculty of Agriculture statistics created in Training Academy | 2018 and onward | BBS, SID, MOP MOF | BAU ISRT | Government approval and resources needed |
Activity | 4.3.3 | Establish coordination between Statistics Training Academy and Agriculture University and ISRT | MoU signed between BBS and Agriculture University and ISRT | 2018 to 2020 | BBS, BAU ISRT, SID | | Government approval needed |
Output | 4.4 | Training to the personnel involved in agriculture statistics provided | | | | | |
Activity | 4.4.1 | Keep provision for training on agriculture statistics in the training plan | Training plan on agriculture statistics prepared | 2018 and onward | BBS SID | ISRT | Availability of resources |
Activity | 4.4.2 | Prepare training plan and update every year | Training plan updated | 2018 and onward | BBS SID | | Continuous effort of BBS needed |
Activity | 4.4.3 | Prepare training course module and curricula | Training modules prepared | 2018 and onward | BBS, SID | ISRT | Continuous effort of BBS needed |
Activity | 4.4.4 | Implement training plans | Necessary training conducted | 2018 and onward | BBS, SID DOF | | Availability of resources |
Activity | 4.4.5 | Strengthen capacity to produce agriculture statistics | Refreshers training organized for field staff | 2017 and onward | BBS SID | DAE, DOF DLS | Availability of resources |
Output | 4.5 | Statistics Wing under BBS Reorganized | | | | | |
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Outputs and Strategic Actions (Activities) | Objectively Verifiable Indicators | Target Year | Implementing Agency/ Ministry | Means of Verification/ Source of data | Assumptions and risks |
Activity | 4.5.1 | Review of strength of staff in agriculture wing of BBS in the context of ARS | Number of existing staff of BBS increased | 2017-22 | BBS SID MoP | | Continuous effort of BBS needed |
Activity | 4.5.2 | Identification of shortages with specific nature of jobs | Number of specialized / expert personnel | 2017-22 | BBS | BBS | Continuous effort of BBS needed |
Activity | 4.5.3 | Creation of two wings in BBS for agricultural statistics | Two wings created: Agriculture Statistics (Crops and land use) Wing and Agriculture Statistics (Fisheries, Livestock and Others) Wing | 2017-2019 | BBS, SID MoPA, MOP MOF | | Government approval needed |
Activity | 4.5.4 | Approval for creation of posts | New posts created and approved | 2017-2018 | BBS, SID, MOP MoPA, MOF | | Government approval needed |
Activity | 4.5.5 | Filling of posts | Recruitment process completed | 2018-2019 | BBS, SID MOP, MOPA | | Government approval needed |
Output | 4.6 | Agriculture Price data system of DAM strengthened | | | | | |
Activity | 4.6.1 | Expand the organizational structure of DAM | Reorganization of DAM completed | 2018-2020 | DAM, MoA MOPA | | Government approval needed |
Activity | 4.6.2 | Improve data collection methodology with support of BBS | Improved methodology developed and used | 2017 and onward | DAM BBS | | Good coordination needed |
Activity | 4.6.3 | Conduct ad-hock survey by DAM for price data collection | Necessary survey conducted and data disseminated | 2017 and onward | DAM | BBS | Resources are available |
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Outputs and Strategic Actions (Activities) | Objectively Verifiable Indicators | Target Year | Implementing Agency/ Ministry | Means of Verification/ Source of data | Assumptions and risks |
Output | 4.7 | Spatial data analysis unit in Agriculture Wing of BBS created | | | | | |
Activity | 4.7.1 | Creation of remote sensing unit in proposed Agriculture Economics (Crops and land use) Wing | Remote Sensing Unit created in Agriculture Wing of BBS | 2017-2020 | BBS SID | | Government approval needed |
Activity | 4.7.2 | Generate RS based crop statistics for prominent crops | Area statistics on the basis of RS technique generated | 2017-2020 | BBS SID | | Government approval needed |
Strategic Goal 5: Improve ICT infrastructure and its applications for collection, compilation and dissemination of ARS and establish Integrated Data Management and dissemination system |
Output | 5.1 | Statistical products generated using ICT tools | | | | | |
Activity | 5.1.1 | Use of GIS / Remote Sensing and other ICT applications for collection of agriculture related statistics | Data collected and compiled using ICT and GIS technology | 2017-22 | BBS | DAE SPARRSO | Availability of resources |
Output | 5.2 | Infrastructure for handling GIS and Remote Sensing data developed | | | | | |
Activity | 5.2.1 | Develop required infrastructure | Hardware and software for GIS and Remote sensing procured and installed | 2017-20 | BBS SID | SPARRSO | Availability of resources |
Activity | 5.2.2 | Human capacity building for use of GIS and Remote sensing | Training provided to the personnel deployed for the purpose | 2017-20 | BBS | DAE SPARRSO | |
Activity | 5.2.3 | Develop integrated data management system | Established data collection and processing facility using ICT for timely dissemination | 2017-22 | BBS SID | DAE, DAM, BMD, SPARRSO, FPMU, MoA | Government approval and resources needed |
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Outputs and Strategic Actions (Activities) | Objectively Verifiable Indicators | Target Year | Implementing Agency/ Ministry | Means of Verification/ Source of data | Assumptions and risks |
Output | 5.3 | Meta data on each AR statistical product available | | | | | |
Activity | 5.3.1 | Prepare of meta data of each AR statistical product | Assign responsibility of Meta data Management to each agency based on the activity involved | 2017 and onward | BBS SID | DAE, DOF, DLS DAM, LGED Other relevant ministries/agencies | Government approval and resources needed |
Output | 5.4 | Visibility of AR statistical product in public domain improved | | | | | |
Activity | 5.4.1 | Improve user participation in AR statistics usage, identification of new data needs and further action | Data dissemination mechanism improves, data demand assessed | 2017 and onward | BBS SID | DAE, DOF, DLS DAM, LGED Other relevant ministries/agencies | Continuous effort of BBS needed |
Activity | 5.4.2 | Organise of Agriculture and Rural data users’ workshops | Number of workshops organized | 2017 and onward | BBS SID | DAE, DOF, DLS DAM, LGED Other relevant | Availability of resources |
Activity | 5.4.3 | Establish a modality to measure user satisfaction | Well organized feedback forum formed | 2018 and onward | BBS SID | Concerned ministries and departments | Continuous effort of BBS needed |
Output | 5.5 | Data sharing protocols developed | | | | | |
Activity | 5.5.1 | Disseminate data in common management | Signing MoU among data producers | 2017 and onward | BBS SID | | Government policies and initiative needed |
Activity | 5.5.2 | Prepare Rules and regulations of data sharing | Rules and regulations finalized and circulated | 2017 and onward | BBS SID | | Government approval needed |
Output | 5.6 | Integrated data dissemination platform established | | | | | |
Activity | 5.6.1 | Create central data hub with BBS’s coordination | Assess data demand and arrange to supply as continuous process | 2017 and onward | BBS SID | Concerned ministries/agencies | Government approval, good coordination and resources needed |