X. Settlement schemes and conservation issues
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XI. Concluding remarks
Annex 6.1: Ministry of Agriculture and Water Development settlement scheme
Chapter 7: Land Use Patterns and Growth in Commercial Input Use, Productivity, and
Profitability by Farm Size Category 199
I. Introduction 199
II. Data sources 199
III. National production trends 202
IV. Commercial farms sector 204
V. Noncommercial farms sector 214
VI. Revenues and expenditures 218
VII. Conclusions 225
Chapter 8: Zambia's Agricultural Data System: A Review of the
Agricultural Time Series Data 227
I. Criteria for evaluating an agricultural data system 227
A. Cost-effectiveness 227
B. Efficiency 228
C. Timeliness 228
D. Accuracy 228
E. Types of surveys 229
II. Review of Zambia's agricultural time series data 231
A. MAFF agricultural data series 231
B. Central Statistics Office agricultural data series 234
C. Comparison of MAFF and CSO estimates 242
D. Publishing agricultural estimates 245
III. Suggestions and recommendations 246
A. Improving cost-effectiveness 246
B. Improving efficiency 247
C. Improving timeliness 247
D. Improving accuracy 248
IV. Summary 249
Annex 8.1: Graphs illustrating variation in commercial farm estimates 252
Annex 8.2: Maize time series data published by the CSO, commercial farms 253
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