SEEA for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS
STATISTICS DIVISION
UNITED NATIONS
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SEEA for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Global Consultation Comment Form
Deadline for responses: 30 January 2015
Please send responses to: seea@un.org
Your name:
Your country/organization:
Contact (e.g. email address):
JOSE GARCIA ZANABRIA
PERU NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICS AND
INFORMATION
jose.garcia@inei.gob.pe
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The comment form has been designed to facilitate the analysis of comments. In Part I general
comments on the general style, structure, content and coverage of the chapter are sought. In
Part II any technical and other comments should be included.
Relevant documents
Before submitting responses you are encouraged to read the accompanying draft paper
available on the SEEA website http://unstats.un.org/unsd/envaccounting/seea.asp
SEEA for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries: Draft for initial global consultation
Part I: General comments
In this section please provide general comments on the draft. You may like to consider
providing comments on the style and tone, the structure and organisation, the content and
coverage, and the general accessibility of the material.
We believe that the material reached the SEEA-FFA system is a guide for the improvement
of economic accounts of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries sectors, which necessitates the
development of annual data bases of these sectors in greater detail and to consider
environmental impact issues in the development of these activities, which included a chapter
of organic crops is showing development dinamico.en emerging countries. and the inclusion
of these products in trade agreements.
Part II: Technical and other comments
In the box below please supply any additional comments including those of a more technical
nature. Please reference your responses with the relevant paragraph numbers or section
numbers.
In item 4.4, should be considered in measuring the production of livestock animals, the
disaggregation of animals for slaughter, for fixed capital formation plus the costs of growing
animal
Comments on the draft System of Environmental-Economic Accounting for Agriculture,
Forestry and Fisheries (SEEA AFF).
National Institute of Statistics and Informatics-PERU
January 20, 2015
National Institute of Statistics and Informatics are pleased to give its views on the draft
System of Environmental-Economic Accounting for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
(SEEA AFF) and consider the draft as a very important tool which allows picking up views
from different countries.
First general view:
National Statistics Offices will have to enhance sources of information and asses in depth
nexus between productivity Agriculture and environmental factors.
Conventionally, our main sources of statistics in tonnes and prices at gate farm for a vast
numbers of products including coca leaves and classified at regional level, monthly, quarterly
and annual data were provided by Ministry of Agriculture, Production and DEVIDA.
With the implementation of the new system, we need to focus in other sources as research
centers, public universities, and other institutions to gather all the data available. For us, there
is a particular interest in knowing the way to measure inputs of ecosystems services and
request for more clarification in this field.
View with reference to point 13.
The scope of the SEEA AFF covers Agricultural, Forestry and Fisheries activities. In Peru,
chicken meat is one of the main sources in Peruvian food. Our proposal is, to denominate
Agriculture& Livestock, Forestry and Fisheries
Views with reference to table 1.1 Data domains of the SEEA AFF.
It would be desirable to include from the beginning the following factors involved
straightforward in the output process.
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Machinery & equipment and infrastructure investment in irrigations, bridges,
roads and internet access. Taking into consideration that farmers could see diminish
substantive losses of harvest seasons if they have easy access to appropriate means of
communications.
•
Research and Development developed by private or public sector.
Public Universities, Research Institutions could help bringing statistics about soil or
seed quality for example.
•
Numbers of farmers by age and gender, engaged in this activity breakdown by
Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry and Fishering.
•
Wages and salaries keeping in mind, employers use to demand workers at stage
seeding and harvest season. We think special treatment is needed.
•
Numbers of credits to measure financing and allocation of funding to smallholder
farmers who face major concerns and large business devoted mainly for cropping
agriexports products.
Views with reference to point 1.3.2 Related statistical documents and initiatives
Implementation of the global Strategy to improve Agricultural and Rural Statictics
There is a challenge implementing new data requirements relating to global warming, land
and water use, food and feed commodities to produce biofuels and others and is urgent to
develop a standard classification by codes.
Related to conventional statistics, one way to improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics is
throughout education. Farmers interviewers need to be well informed about the importance of
basic data. As counterpart, stakeholders should support them giving selected information in
order to help them facing plagues or improve their productivity. If they are not aware of the
vital importance, compilers will continue gathering misleading data and increasing time
consistency process affecting timeliness. We know there are very useful guides posted in web
sites but one of the barriers apart from the access to networks due to location of farms in
remote areas is language.
Views with reference to point 2.3.3 Applications at sub-national level
We welcome the process of mapping individual sets; as a result this process will show
similarities or discrepancies within a country or among neighbor countries. For example
coca leaf is a crop of particular importance and analytical interest.
In countries where it is cultivated there would be interchange of experiences and set up
a common way for productivity measurements and their relationship with environment.
Views with reference to point 3.3.2 SEEA AFF Physical flow accounts
We consider important to treat apart valuation because many times in practice it constitutes in
a real constraint due to the various statistics in prices. We know both of them have to balance
but valuation at farmer gate prices or prices output differs in a substantive way from prices
consumers.
Common products use to be those which destinies are exports. How to balance measurement
with heterogeneous prices? After all, taking in consideration the volatility of prices in external
market. Another interesting issue can be to count with reliable tables showing wholesale and
retail margin products (Supply chains).
Views with reference to point 4.4.2 Accounting entries
We would like to stress the importance of this table. It shows meat and not animal alive and it
means different amounts. In our understanding meat is for food industry and animal alive for
Livestock.
On the other hand, statistics from Ministry of Agriculture comes in meat tonnes and estimated
of animal alive by variety. In order to get more accuracy in livestock measurement we request
for more detail.
Thank You very much for giving us an opportunity to be involved in this
important Project.
Yours sincerely
Bertha Rodriguez
SCAE de Agricultura, Silvicultura y Pesca
Formulario de Comentario de la Consulta Global
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Parte II: Comentarios técnicos y otros
En el cuadro de abajo indique a continuación las observaciones adicionales, incluyendo
las de carácter más técnico. Por favor, consulte las respuestas con los números de los
párrafos pertinentes o números de sección.
En la Tabla 3.5: SEEA AFF Combined presentation: Activity and product specific inputs,
en la parte que refiere de la actividad Pesca se especifica una desagregación
(Acuicultura, pescados demersales, pescados pelágicos, otros pescados marítimos y
crustáceos) en cantidades y valores.
Para el caso de toneladas, nuestra fuente principal es el Ministerio de la Producción, y la
información que brinda viene desagregada de la siguiente manera: 1. Marítimo: a.
Pescados: Pescados pelágicos, pescados demersales, pescados costeros (pelágicos y
demersales) y otros pescados. b. Mariscos: Crustáceos y moluscos; y c. Otras especies. 2.
Pesca Continental. Por ello, se debería llegar a un acuerdo con dicha institución.
Por la parte del cálculo del VBP, que elabora la DNCN, la desagregación por productos
tampoco es igual. Para los cálculos de Oferta y Utilización la dirección utiliza la siguiente
clasificación de productos: 1. Anchoveta, 2. Jurel, 3. Perico, 4. Caballa, 5. Otros peces
marítimos, 6. Peces de agua dulce, 7. Conchas de abanico, 8. Pota y 9. Otros crustáceos,
moluscos, algas e invertebrados acuáticos. Por ello, se recomienda revisar los productos
de las actividades de Agricultura , Silvicultura y Pesca, que trabaja Cuentas Nacionales.
En la Tabla 3.8: SEEA AFF Combined presentation: Cross industry and activity
perspectives también se menciona otra desagregación de la Pesca (Acuicultura de agua
dulce y marina; y Pesca de agua dulce y marina), aquí se detallan en la parte derecha
muchas variables económicas, tales como: Producción nacional, consumo intermedio,
exportaciones, entre otras, en millones de soles.
Cabe indicar que, la DNCN la actividad Pesca la desagrega de otra manera (ya
mencionado anteriormente), de manera que sería hacer un nuevo Cuadro de oferta y
utilización para determinar cada variable.
En el ítem 4.8 Physical flow account for fish and other aquatic products, numeral 136, se
muestra 12 agrupaciones del total de especies de recursos marinos ( 1. Peces de agua
dulce, 2. Diadromos, 3. Los peces demersales, 4. Atún, bonito, 5. Otros peces pelágicos, 6.
Otros peces marinos, 7. Crustáceos, 8. Cefalópodos, 9. Otros moluscos, 10. Mamíferos
acuáticos, 11. Otros animales acuáticos y 12. Plantas acuáticas). Sin embargo, como ya
se explicó no se tiene la misma desagregación de nuestra fuente principal, el PRODUCE.
En la tabla 4.8: Physical flow account for fish and aquatic products (tonnes), igualmente
se tiene que conciliar la desagregación de especies de la actividad Pesca. Además, en la
parte derecha (filas) hay variables como captura de descarte, cosecha perdida o
producción incomible. Ello no es elaborado por DNCN, se tendría que determinar una
metodología de cálculo, conjuntamente con el PRODUCE.
Finalmente, debo recomendar una coordinación con PRODUCE, INEI y FAO para
determinar los productos a desarrollarse como Sistema de Cuentas Económico
Ambiental de las actividades de Agricultura, Silvicultura y Pesca.