Literal question
A1. Has your household engaged directly in any of the following agricultural activities, that is: crop growing, livestock and poultry raising, fish farming and game ranching since 1st October 2009?
[] 1 Yes
[] 2 No - [Go to] M1
Interviewer instructions
4.23 Agriculture
In this section, we would like to know whether the household is engaged in any agricultural activity i.e. crop growing, livestock or poultry raising, fish farming or game ranching.
An Agricultural Household is a household in which at least one member is carrying out some agricultural activity on the holding belonging to the household, and/or horticultural farming.
Agricultural Activity is the growing of any crop and/or raising of livestock and/or raising of poultry and/or fish farming and/or game ranching.
Holding refers to land wholly or partly operated for agricultural purposes such as growing crops and/or raising livestock and/or raising poultry for production under a single technical management. Livestock include cattle, pigs, goats, sheep and donkeys. Poultry includes chickens, Ducks, Geese, Pigeons, Guineafowls, Rabbits and Turkeys.
Zambia's agricultural season extends from 1st October of one year to 30th September of the following year.
A-1: Has your household engaged directly in any of the following agricultural activities, that is; crop growing, livestock and poultry raising, fish farming and game ranching since 1st October, 2009?
Find out from the respondent whether the household was engaged in any of the agricultural activities since 1st October, 2009. If no, skip to M1.
(Remember horticultural farming should be regarded as crop growing and should fall under other crops).
Examples of agriculture households
1.If maize is grown in the backyard garden and consumed as fresh (green) maize, this household will be considered to be growing a vegetable and not maize.
2.If a Mr. Banda in Chibolya keeps goats within his homestead and lets them roam about during the day, he is considered to be raising goats. However, Mrs. Chilala who lives in Lusaka and owns cattle in Namwala and someone else is raising them on her behalf, she is not considered to be raising cattle, but the person who is raising cattle on her behalf is the one who will be captured as raising cattle.
