The Director General of the Institute, Mr. El Hadi El Saidi, concluded on Thursday, April 4, 2019, in Amman, Jordan, the work of the Regional Workshop on Volume 2 “Operational Guidelines” of the FAO World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2020 (WCA 2020) organized by the Arab Institute for Training and Research in Statistics (AITRS) in cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) And the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD) . Which lasted for four working days in the presence of 41 participants representing 18 Arab countries from statistical agencies and ministries of agriculture and the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development in addition to five experts from the FAO.
This workshop is part of implementation work plan of the Institute for the current year, which been approved by the Board of Trustees last November. The workshop aims mainly at disseminating the practical guidelines (Volume 2) of the World Program of Agricultural Census for the period 2016-2025 among FAO member countries in the Near East and North Africa region. It also enabled to identify all stages of the agricultural census, including design and planning for the census, and the operations on the fieldwork, processing, preparing, analysis and dissemination of results, as well as a deeper understanding of key stages related to the preparation of agricultural census and its implementation. It also represent an opportunity for Arab countries to present their experiences in this field and to share Arab experiences in order to spread the benefits from successful experiences.
During Ceremony for the delivery of certificates The Director General of the Institute said that the importance of the agricultural census is no less important than the census, As it results numbers of indicators important for food security and environmental security in the Arab world especially when the efforts of the statistical agencies and the ministries of agriculture unite in the completion of this important project
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