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1970 World Census of Agriculture - ANALYSIS AND INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON OF THE RESULTS

Year of publication 1981

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 325 p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (series)

Series title FAO Statistics Series

Series number 37

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) FAO has been promoting decennial programmes of the W□rld Census of Agriculture (WCAJ since 195□, Bnd the 197□ Programme was the third in that series. The countries that participated in the 197rJ \CA, in general 1,ommunicated to FAD their national census reports, prepared in diverse forms and languages, As soon a= these natical reports were reviewed they were prncessed in standard form, using the terminology and resentation suggested in the Programme for the 1970 WCA. The processed results, for a few countries at a tirne, were published regularly in Census Bulletins. Information dealing with the concepts, defi,1itions and methodology of census taking, as applied by countries in the 1970 WCA, was issued separately in a publication entitled "Repcrt on the 1970 World [ensus of Agriculture" . This publication provides, in an internationally comparable form, a summary of data describing the main characteristics of agricultural structures, such as number and area of agrlcultural holdings, land tenure, agricultural holders and land use. It contains data from 89 countries: 78 countries which issued complete and final census reports and 11 countries which issued oily prelimlnciry or partlal reports. In addition, it contains comparable data, when available, for those countries which participated in the 1950 and 1960 WCA in order to provide a broader picture of the changes in agricultural structures which have occurred during the period 1950-1970.

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