Illustrative photo (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - A mid-term survey on rural areas and agriculturewill be carried out in Vietnam’s 63 cities and provinces from July 1, theGeneral Statistics Office (GSO) has announced.
The survey will see direct interviews with households engaged in theagro-forestry-fishery sector, while staff at commune People’s Committees willfile associated information for the GSO’s official website.
Information to be collected includes the state of agro-forestry-fisheryproduction and of rural residents, such as the quantity, earnings, andemployment of agricultural households and farms, the use of arable land, therural population, the number of poor households, and rural socio-economicinfrastructure, among others.
This will help build more criteria for related national systems, analyseand predict growth in farming and rural areas nationally and locally, and evaluatethe outcomes of rural development tasks in the 2016-2020 period and build plansfor 2021-2025.
It will also be a source for building agricultural and rural databases.
The survey will last until July 20, collecting data for the 12 monthsprior to the starting date. Preliminary and official results are scheduled tobe released in December and March 2021, respectively./.
VNA
