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Thursday, February 21, 2013

NSO holds workshop on 2013 census of agriculture, fisheries in Bayog

By Bernadine Astillero-Gabawan

BAYOG, Zamboanga del Sur – The National Statistics Office (NSO) – Zamboanga del Sur Provincial Office concluded a five-day workshop on 2012 Census of Agriculture & Fisheries held last Feb. 11-15 at the Municipal Swimming Pool Function Hall in this town.

Sonia D. Supnet, , NSO-Statistical Coordination Officer  together with two team supervisors, Ariane C. Tremedal and Alaister H. Samijon, facilitated the workshop which was attended by 31 participants/enumerators.
The said workshop was designed to train the enumerators on the procedures and steps in the conduct of the 2013 Census of Agriculture and Fisheries (CAF), a nationwide undertaking geared towards the collection and compilation of basic information on agriculture and fisheries in the country.
The census will simultaneously start throughout the country on Feb 25 to come up with an inventory of the country’s agricultural and fishery resources which is useful in making meaningful decisions with respect to the use of the same. (PIA9)