Agriculture |
Brief Introduction |
I. the data
in this chapter show the basic conditions of agricultural production and
rural economy, including mainly rural labour force, cultivated land, quantity
of agricultural machinery, output of farming, forestry, animal husbandry and
fishery, output of major products, facilities of water conservancy and
efforts to eliminate water-logging and combat alkalinity, productive fixed
assets owned by the rural households, basic conditions of the state-owned
farms and township enterprises. |
Statistics
on agriculture cover all agricultural production activities except horse raising for military purpose and activities undertaken by
agriculture research institutions. Included in agriculture statistics are
production activities of farms specializing in crop cultivation, forestry,
animal husbandry and fishery; production activities undertaken by government
agencies, institutions, schools and military units; production of collective
farms run by townships and villages; production activities in crop
cultivation, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery undertaken by rural
economic units of various types and by rural households, and commercial
industrial activities undertaken by rural households as sideline production. |
1. Agriculture: includes crop cultivation and
other agricultural activities. Crop cultivation refers to the cultivation of
cereals, beans, tuber crops, cotton, oil-bearing crops, sugar crops, hemp,
tobacco leaves, vegetables, medicinal herbs, gourds and other farm crops, as
well as the operation on tea plantations, mulberry fields and orchards. Other
agriculture refers to collection of the seeds, fiber, resin, oil of wild
plants; gathering of firewood, wild herbs, mushrooms and fungus; and
commercial industrial activities undertaken by rural households as sideline
production. |
2. Forestry: includes the planting of trees
(excluding the operation on tea plantations, mulberry fields and orchards),
collection of forest products and the felling of bamboo and trees by village
cooperative units and rural households. |
3. Animal husbandry: includes the raising and
grazing of domestic animals and poultry, and the hunting and raising of wild animals. |
4. Fishery: includes cultivation and catching
of aquatic animals and seaweed. |
The rural
social and economic statistics cover all social and economic activities in
all townships except that taking place in county towns. |
II. Source
of data and survey methodology |
1. Data on rural grassroots units, labour
force and agricultural production (tables 12-1 to 12-7, tables 12-16 to
12-18) are provided by the Rural Socio-economic Survey Organization, NBS
using data from the Comprehensive Statistical Reporting on Farming, Forestry,
Animal Husbandry and Fishery, the Rural Social and Economic Survey, and the
Sample Survey of Farm Crops. |
Comprehensive
Statistical Reporting on Farming, Forestry, Animal Husbandry and Fishery is a
comprehensive reporting programme reported by provincial statistical bureaus
to the National Bureau of Statistics. Data required in this reporting
programme are collected by statistical offices at all levels by means of
sample surveys, surveys of key units or full enumeration depending on the
local circumstances, or estimated by using information from other government
agencies at the same level or from the sample survey of farm crops and rural
household survey conducted by NBS. for instance,
some data on condition of agriculture production and on forestry and fishery
are obtained from statistics collected by other government agencies at the
same level, while data on crop production are collected from the sample
survey of farm crops. |
Sample
Survey of Farm Crops is a nation-wide survey designed by NBS and implemented
by sample survey teams throughout |
Rural
Social and Economic Survey is a special survey designed by the NBS to
understand the basic condition of social and economic activities at township
level, the size and transfer of total rural labour force and investment in
fixed assets in rural areas. Under this survey programme, a complete
enumeration is conducted every 3 years to collect information on basic
condition of social and economic activities at township and village levels,
while sample survey is used to collect information on other items with the
same sampling units as in the Rural Household Survey. |
(2) Data on
the fixed assets, cultivated land and sales of farm products of rural
households (tables 12-11 to 12-15, 12-23, 12-24) are collected and provided
by the Rural Socio-economic Survey Organization, NBS through the Rural
Household Survey. A summary of this survey is given in Chapter 10 of this
yearbook. |
(3) Data on
the basic conditions of the state-owned farms come from the statistical
reports tabulated by the Bureau of Reclamation, Ministry of Agriculture. The
statistical coverage includes 30 provinces, autonomous regions and
municipalities directly under the central government; only |
The data
are collected from the grassroots units in accordance with the statistical
reporting scheme and tabulated and reported level by level. The content of
indicators and calculation methods are the same as those stipulated by the
National Bureau of Statistics. |
(4) Data on
irrigation and reservoirs, the data on the efforts to eliminate
water-logging, prevent floods by water control and combat alkalinity as well
as the data on the facilities of water conservancy and the area of
water-logging eliminated and the improved area of saline-alkaline land come
mainly from statistical reports of the Ministry of Water Conservancy. The
statistical coverage includes provinces, autonomous regions and
municipalities directly under the central government. County is the basic
statistical unit. The data are collected from the counties in accordance with
the statistical reporting scheme and tabulated and reported level by level.
Data on some special indicators such as the number of irrigated areas, large
reservoirs and the medium-sized and small reservoirs that cut across counties
are collected directly by the prefectures and reported to the water
conservancy departments of the provinces. |
1. Data on the township enterprises come
mainly from the Bureau of Township Enterprises, Ministry of Agriculture. The
statistical coverage of township enterprises includes the township
enterprises of all trades in the provinces, autonomous regions and
municipalities directly under the central government, including those run by
townships, villages, individuals and jointly run by them. The data are
collected from the final financial accounts of the township enterprises and
the tabulated annual reports. |