Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

This section provides information such as: livestock operators, milk production by dairy cattle in the country, sheep wool, goat hair and down production, production capacity of broiler chicken farms, laying hen and pullet breeders, capacity of active industrial cattle farms, cows and calves of active units, etc. In 2005, using the statistical framework of the 2003 General Agricultural Census, a survey of the country's livestock farms was carried out for the first time by the Statistics Center of Iran and in cooperation with the Deputy of Livestock Affairs of the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad. In 1980, for the first time, industrial dairy farm statistics were collected by the Statistics Center of Iran, which used the list of industrial dairy farms resulting from the General Agricultural Census of 1988. The aforementioned project was carried out in 1994 as a census, and in 1996, 1999, and 2007 by the Statistics Center of Iran, and in 2004 as a sample by the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad, and its results were presented. Livestock slaughter statistics were published by the Statistics Office of the Ministry of Finance until 1967. From 1968 to 1996, the Statistical Center of Iran collected and published livestock slaughter statistics through correspondence with municipalities and based on monthly reports from municipalities that have slaughterhouses. Since 1997, the aforementioned information has been collected through slaughterhouses and in cooperation with the National Veterinary Organization and municipalities. The Statistical Center of Iran also implemented statistical projects from poultry farms for the first time in 1985 and 1986. In recent years, due to the diversity of activities in the poultry industry, a census has been conducted for each of the activities of raising laying hens and pullets, mother hens, and hatching, and a sample survey has been conducted for the activity of raising broiler chickens.

The first national agricultural census was conducted in 1950 by the General Statistics Office of the time, using a sampling method. After several sample surveys, the results of which were published in 1971 and 1972, the first rural agricultural census was carried out by the Statistics Center of Iran in 1973. In this census, the desired information was collected at the settlement level by visiting all rural areas of the country. Based on the statistical framework obtained from the aforementioned census, the rural agricultural census plan was implemented by the Statistics Center of Iran in 1974, 1975, and 1977 until 1979, as well as in 1982 and 1987, and its results were published. In 1981, Jihad Sazandegi, while implementing the rural identity card preparation plan, collected information similar to the information obtained from the 1973 agricultural census conducted by the Statistics Center of Iran. In 1988, the first general agricultural census was carried out by the Statistics Center of Iran in urban and rural areas of the country. In this census, all agricultural operations related to natural persons were surveyed by referring to households residing in rural and urban areas, as well as non-resident households and operations related to legal entities, by identifying all the places where their agricultural activities were carried out. Using the framework of this census, the first sample agricultural census project was carried out in 1992 by the Statistical Center of Iran. In this project, only agricultural activities of agricultural operations were covered, and information related to production, value of production, and cost of production of major agricultural products, etc. were collected for 1991. In 1993, the second general agricultural census of the country was carried out by the Statistical Center of Iran. In this census, some cities or urban areas whose number of farming households was not significant at the time of the 1988 census were not included in the census. In 2003, the third general agricultural census of the country was carried out by the Statistical Center of Iran in cooperation with the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad. In this census, to identify agricultural farmers, all parts of the country were listed, except for 108 cities called selected cities. The list of agricultural operators in selected cities was prepared in 2002 using the information available in the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad and Local Research, as part of the “Census of Agricultural Operators in Selected Cities” project. In 2005, using the statistical framework of the 2003 General Agricultural Census, the country’s livestock census was implemented for the first time by the Statistics Center of Iran and in collaboration with the Deputy of Livestock Affairs of the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad. The 2014 General Agricultural Census is the fourth general agricultural census of the country, which was conducted simultaneously throughout the country from October 25 to November 8. The results of this census include a wide range of statistical information that is presented in the form of various tables in electronic and paper publications.