Bhutan

Sub-national Statistical Data

A web-based facility for storing and access of sub-national agricultural statistical data files from the country source. National focal points are responsible for maintaining the database.

 

- Country Profile of FAO Website

- Metadata for National Agricultural Statistics


General Status of the System of Food and Agriculture Statistics in Bhutan

Bhutan MapBhutan has adopted a decentralized statistical structure. The statistical programmes are administrated and operated under the authority of various government ministries. The responsibility for official agricultural statistics is now with the Ministry of Agriculture, but the responsibility for general statistics has wavered from the Central Statistical Organization (CSO) to sundry ministries. [PDF format, 79 kb]

 

Proceedings on the National Seminar on the System Food and Agriculture Statistics in Thimphu, 23-24 January 2000

A national seminar on the System of Food and Agriculture Statistics was held at the Banquet Hall of the Royal Government of Bhutan in Thimphu on 23 and 24 January 2000. The seminar was organized jointly by the Ministry of Agriculture of Bhutan and the FAO Regional Project for the Improvement of Agricultural Statistics in Asia-Pacific Countries (GCP/RAS/17I/JPN). Twenty-seven senior officers from the relevant departments of the Ministry of Agriculture, concerned organizations, and the Central Statistics Organization of Bhutan participated in the seminar. .
Executive Summary, Speeches and List of Participants [PDF format, 71 kb]
Resource Papers [PDF format, 443 kb]

 

Contact address of Food and Agricultural Statistics in Bhutan

Policy and Planning Division, Ministry of Agriculture
P.O. Box 252
Thimphu
Tel: (975-2) 323745
Fax: (975-2) 323748
Email: karpodrukpa@yahoo.com
karpo@moa.gov.bt


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