Nepal - Vegetable Crops Survey 2009-2010

Start	End	Cycle
2009-11-19	2010-02-13	N/A

Face-to-face [f2f]
The Vegetable Crops Survey 2009/10 was carried out in two phases in 3 months. In the first phase 17, cross-sectional districts of the country were covered and the remaining districts were enumerated in the second phase each of one and a half months. The field work was begun from mid-November 2009 and lasted till mid-February 2010. There were 17 teams formed and employed for the field work of 34 districts selected. Each team was assigned for household listing and enumeration of 20 wards within 2 districts.

The scope of the survey was covered in the following topics of vegetable farming:

1. Introductory Description
It has questions on geographical location of the enumeration area, information on the principal vegetable holder such as name, caste/ethnicity, sex, educational status, main source of income and the purpose of vegetable farming.

2. Area and Use of Land by Parcel
This section covers the information on area and land uses, irrigation facility, sources of irrigation and land ownership by parcels.

3. Description of Employment and Current/Capital Expenditure

3.1 Family and Permanent/Temporary Workers engaged in Vegetable Farming
The information on the number of family members, temporary and permanent employees hired for vegetable farming was covered.

3.2 Description of Capital Expenditure on Vegetable Farming
This sub-section has questions on purchase of land, agricultural equipment and major repairs of capitals used for vegetable farming.

3.3 Current Expenditure on Vegetable Farming
The current expenditure on different activities of vegetable crops was collected in this sub-section including the month in which the expenditure was made for each vegetable crop. The information on the temporarily hired labour was captured for every vegetable crop.

4. Production and Income

4.1 Vegetable Production and Uses
In this group, questions on production and uses of vegetable crops were asked by each vegetable parcel. It includes the month in which the vegetable crops were planted and harvested. The production under compact plantation and in a scatter form was collected to make exhaustive collection of production. The number of plants was recorded in case of scatter vegetable crops for each parcel instead of area. The information on the household consumption and sales constitute the total production which ultimately produced total output using the average unit producers' price value.

4.2 Other Income from Vegetable Farming
The income from the byproducts of vegetable crop and sale of vegetable crop land and other equipment were collected under this heading.

5. Financial Description
The information on loan requirements for the vegetable crops was asked in this section.

6. Miscellaneous
The information on the agricultural inputs and agricultural extension services, market center for vegetable sale and sufficiency of the vegetable production were gathered in this section.

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation
Branch Statistical Offices	BSO	Central Bureau of Statistics

An intensive supervision over the field work was carried out by the supervisory staff comprising district level officers and supervisors. In addition, field supervision was carried out to various districts by the officers and supervisors of agriculture statistics section of CBS and Agricultural Statistician of the project. Supervision was done basically for checking to control non-sampling errors likely to occur due to enumerators or respondents or both. After completing the work of enumeration in assigned number of wards in a team, enumerators submitted the filled-in questionnaires to the supervisor or team leader for editing and checking. On the basis of the work done by enumerators in the sleeted wards, the team leader provided the progress report of the survey in the respective BSO and to CBS through phone. The report of the supervisory staff confirmed that the quality of data collected by the field staff by and large was quite good.

There were 17 field teams. There was one supervisor and two enumerators in each team. Each team was provided a household listing form (Form 1), roster of sample holding (Form 1A), household survey questionnaires (Form 2), enumerators' manuals and necessary logistic support (pencil, eraser, black and red ball pens, writing pad, clip board, files, backpack, stapler and staples, punching machine, first aid kit, torch light with batteries, calculator, etc.). As a team leader, the supervisor was responsible for supervising, coordinating, editing and checking of the filled-in questionnaire and solving the problems encountered by enumerators. The quality of data collected from the holders depends to some extents on the attempt of the enumerators. The enumerators were assigned to visit households, interview the household head or vegetable holder and in case of their absence, fill-in the questionnaire with knowledgeable person of the family. To maintain the data quality, revisits to the households were made if any inconsistencies were shown in the filled-in questionnaire.