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On May 27-28, Along with APRC representatives and the ENPARD team at ISET Policy Institute, ISET students took part in a field trip to the western regions of Samegrelo, Guria and Racha-Lechkhumi. They conducted interviews with cooperative members supported by ENPARD (European Neighborhood Programme for Agriculture and Rural Development), whose project is implemented by a CARE consortium in those regions, of which ISET is a participating member. To become more familiar with the questionnaire, before the field trip an M&E representative from CARE gave the participants some training and instructions.
The participants also visited the consortium’s field office in Samtredia and the operational agricultural cooperatives in each region, becoming familiar with their organisational structure and the challenges and opportunities they face.
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On May 25, APRC researcher Ia Katsia attended a working meeting organized by Geostat, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Food, and the Agriculture Organization. The aim of the meeting was to update the data on recent and pending changes in the Sample Survey of Agricultural Holdings and review the results of the 2014 Agricultural Census 2014.
Major improvements were introduced for the Sample Survey of Agricultural Holdings, such as preparing a new set of samples to be surveyed, an increase of sample size increase up to 12000, and updating weighting procedures. As the part of their future plans, new indicators were presented which will be added to the survey.The APRC represents one of the biggest users of agricultural statistics, and Ia presented the APRC’s vision for agricultural statistics and its main concerns of the sector.
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