Launch of Census of Agriculture in Rio de Janeiro marks the beginning of data collection phase
October 02, 2017 02h48 PM | Last Updated: October 09, 2017 10h02 AM
The launch of the Census of Agriculture this Monday morning at the IBGE headquarters in Rio de Janeiro marked the beginning of the data collection phase of the survey, which will raise information of about 5.3 million establishments all over the country. The minister of Planning, Development and Management, Dyogo Oliveira, the President of the IBGE, Roberto Olinto, and the board of directors participated in the ceremony.
Roberto Olinto praised the work that allowed the Census of Agriculture to begin still in 2017, as well as the importance of the collection of new data of such an important sector of the Brazilian economy.
Antonio Florido, Technical Manager of the Census of Agriculture, highlighted the importance of knowing the rural sector.
"It is a pleasure to start the Census of Agriculture. I thank the support of minister Dyogo Oliveira. It is a crucial moment for the survey, a moment in which it unfolds in the field. It is our greatest challenge, with 18 thousand persons knocking doors throughout the country. It is a very important thing, interrupting 10 years of lack of detailed information on the rural sector. It is a fruit of much effort", highlighted Olinto.
Minister Dyogo Oliveira highlighted the importance of the survey for Brazil, especially for the agribusiness, one of the pillars of the Brazilian economy.
"We are an agricultural country, our economy is much linked to the agribusiness. People do not perceive how much agribusiness affects our daily routine. This delay even surprises us, since it is a very important sector of our economy. And it has innovation, technology, it is not that ludicrous rural sector people wondered in the past. We have one of the most competitive agribusinesses on the planet", says minister Oliveira.
The pace of work for the Census of Agriculture has been intensive for months, yet its launch marks the beginning of the external phase of the survey, in which data will be collected by more than 18 thousand enumerators hired for the operation.
Journalists and internal public follow official launch of 2017 Census of Agriculture at IBGE headquarters in RJ
Antonio Florido, Technical Manager of the Census of Agriculture, announced that the first data collected had already arrived at the IBGE, and remembered that much work had already been done even before the beginning of this phase: "It is three years of work. We did not begin yesterday", said the researcher, who provided the main details of the operation to the journalists.
The enumerators are already in the field gathering data for the survey. As the Census of Agriculture will last 5 months, not all the areas will be visited right in the first week of data collection. It is expected to gradually happen as the enumerators progress in their enumeration areas.
Calendar
Data collection: from October 2017 to February 2018
Data assessment and analysis: from March 2018 onwards
Release of the results: from May 2018 onwards
Text: Rodrigo Paradella
Photograph: Pedro Vidal
