President of IBGE highlights partnerships during data collection of Census of Agriculture in Bahia
October 09, 2017 04h19 PM | Last Updated: October 10, 2017 04h09 PM
"Knowledge is one of the biggest treasures of a country. Censuses are not expenditures, but rather an investment", stated Roberto Olinto Ramos, President of the IBGE, in the beginning of the data collection of the 2017 Census of Agriculture in Bahia. The survey began on October 2 and about 47,900 establishments were visited during the first week all over the country. 5.3 million agricultural establishments in the 5,570 Brazilian municipalities will be visited up to February 2018.
Last Friday (October 6), Olinto and João Martins, President of the Brazilian Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock - CNA and of the Federation of Agriculture and Livestock of Bahia - FAEB, checked on-site the first interview of the Census of Agriculture in the municipality of Santo Amaro, in the Bahia Recôncavo. Artur Ferreira Filho, head of the IBGE in Bahia, also participated in the visit. The CNA is one of the IBGE partners in the dissemination of the importance of the census operation for this sector.