Jakarta, Feb. 11 -- The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has announced new partnerships to help countries adopt cost effective technologies to produce agriculture statistics, as the Asia Pacific Commission on Agricultural Statistics meeting discusses challenges in developing them. In a statement from the FAO received here, Tuesday, the organization and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) launched a large-scale open online course in 2019. Handbooks, on use of tablet-based data collection using Computer Assisted Personal Interviews, are also due to be launched during the Asia Pacific Commission on Agricultural Statistics (APCAS) meeting, which was opened in Bali, Indonesia on February 10.

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