Elita Chikwati Agriculture Reporter
The Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) is conducting the 2021 Agriculture and Livestock Survey across the country to collect data on the agriculture industry.

The survey will run from May to June.

The data collected through the survey is mainly used for assessing the food security position at both household and national level, a compilation of the contribution of the agriculture industry to country Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and economic analysis of the agricultural industry, among other things.

Zimstat director-general, Mr Taguma Mahonde, said the exercise sought to collect data on the number of people employed in agriculture and wages paid by sex.

It will also collect data on the area under crop, cropping patterns and crop production estimates, inventory of livestock and livestock inputs and inventory of farm implements and machinery.

Also to be collected is data on the construction of buildings and other infrastructure and transport and energy use

“Data will be collected from the six farming sectors of Zimbabwe; the Large Scale Commercial Farms(LSCF), Small Scale Commercial Farms (SSCF), Communal Lands, Old Resettlement Schemes (Models A, B1, B2 and E), A1f and A2 farms,” he said.

The Agriculture and Livestock Survey is an annual survey, which consists of nine modules and conducted at different times of the year in line with the agriculture season. Some of the modules are conducted quarterly while others are conducted annually.