Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) will start Agriculture Census-2018 from April next year to update agriculture related data and information.
BBS held a workshop as part of its preparation for conducting the census-crop, fisheries and livestock. It has started zoning to conduct the census.
Saurendra Nath Chakrabhartty, Secretary (in-charge) of Statistics and Informatics Division (SID) of Planning Ministry and Additional Secretary Bikash Kishore Das spoke at the workshop. Project director of Agriculture Census-2018 Md Zafar Ahmad Khan made a power point presentation on the background, objectives, census area, nature of questions and other information about the census. The workshop was informed that collection of information for the census will begin from April, 2019. Information will be collected from all households and agriculture related organisations in two phases.
