The CountrySTAT

The CountrySTAT-Bhutan is a web-based system for management and dissemination of harmonized statistics on Renewable Natural Resources (RNR) activities and production of the Ministry of Agriculture & Forests for analysis and policy making. The system contains mainly of regularly updated statistical data on land use, agricultural (crops, livestock and forest) productions, exports and imports of agricultural commodities, agricultural inputs, commodity prices, farm machineries, and development infrastructures. It also provides links to relevant official documents and statistical websites around the globe.

The development of the CountrySTAT-Bhutan was started in June 2007 at the Policy and Planning Division of the Ministry of Agriculture and completed in the first week of March 2008. The project was supported by the FAOs Netherlands Partnership Programme (FNPP)

Relation to FAOSTAT

The CountrySTAT-Bhutan shall serve as a complementary system to FAOSTAT. Its outputs are designed to load easily into FAOSTAT. This process or flow, as envisioned in the development of this system, ensures only one source for the data and improves FAOSTAT's capacity to provide high quality statistical data at the international level. Following the FAOSTAT framework, the CountrySTAT shall have statistical data series surrounded by metadata.

News and Notifications

This is to inform the general users of this CountrySTAT that the contents of the system is being updated.