A new farm survey tallied 1,726,000 household agricultural holdings in Cambodia or 50.2 per cent of all 3,438,000 households, as counted by the Cambodia Socio-Economic Survey 2017. The latest Cambodia Inter-censal Agriculture Survey 2019 (CIAS 2019) noted that 88 per cent of household agricultural holdings engaged in crop activity, while 75 per cent reported raising livestock, poultry or insects. CIAS 2019 is the first large-scale survey of the agriculture sector since the Census of Agriculture in Cambodia 2013, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said in a press statement. With a report on its findings poised for launch on February 9, FAO said the census is funded by the Cambodian government, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), FAO and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.