MAPUTO, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- The Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi launched Tuesday a statistical operation aiming to collect data that will allow for a realistic evaluation of agriculture, as well as the planning and effective implementation of strategic policies for the development of the agricultural sector in the country.
The program, named "Integrated Agrarian Survey (IAI) 2020", will be the first of its kind to provide statistical information at the district level to support local planning process in agricultural sector, according to the president who was speaking at the launching ceremony with the presence of several program partners in Maputo.
"Reliable statistics will help us to make more informed decisions with concrete data, for private investments and public policies of good governance," said Nyusi.
The IAI will allow the country to update the production and productivity indicators of the main crops at national level and will also take into account the dimension of productive plots per household and average income per family, he said.
The president stressed that his government intends to end hunger by 2025 and reduce chronic malnutrition to 10 percent in the country.
Leaders and technicians of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the National Institute of Statistics were also urged to conduct the survey in a transparent and professional way, to give greater reliability to the results. Enditem
