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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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