MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES

PLANNING and STATISTICS UNIT

The Planning and Statistics Unit within the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries was established in 1982 functioning at three basic levels.

  To gather data relevant to the Agriculture  Sector
  To carry out economic analysis and
  To coordinate the activities of the Ministry of Agriculture towards the common
     goals of achieving Agricultural and National Development

In an effort to improve and  strengthen the institutional capabilities of the Agricultural Planning Unit (as it was  called in the early days of its establishment) there were two (2) specific objectives  outlined;

  To improve methods of data collection, organization, analysis and
     dissemination for Agricultural Planning and
  To establish a system of annual programming and monitoring for activities and
     projects in the Agricultural Sector.

As a result of this new Improvement in strengthening the Agricultural Planning Unit (APU), three major areas were developed terms of  Marketing and Trade,  Sector Evaluation and Farm Management Programming, Monitoring and Evaluation. These new structures gave rise to the realization of three distinct sub-units within the Agricultural Planning Unit namely, Marketing, Statistics and Planning respectively.

Subsequent to the period of reform and advancement the unit’s name was formally changed to the now known Planning and  Statistics Unit (PSU).

In general the role of the Planning and Statistics Unit is to provide a capable and efficient framework for developing, evaluating, implementing, monitoring and coordinating policies, plans, programmes and activities in the Agricultural Sector.