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ISSN 1334-0565

 

YEAR: XLV.

ZAGREB, 28 MARCH, 2008

NUMBER: 1.1.3.

 

 

OBLIGED TO NOTIFY DATA SOURCE

 

AUTUMN SOWING, situation as on 15 December 2007

 

In the 2007 autumn sowing, the land sown with cereals and oil rape amounted to 224 148 ha.

 

In regard of the structure of the land sown with cereals in the 2007 autumn sowing, the major area was sown with wheat (68.0%) and barley (26.0%). As compared to the last year, the total land sown in the 2007 autumn sowing decreased by 9%. The land sown with cereals decreased by 12%, while the land sown with oil rape increased by 51%.

 

1.   LAND SOWN IN AUTUMN, situation as on 15 December 2007

 

Land sown, ha

Total land sown

Indices

2007.
2006.

 

Total

Legal entities and parts thereof

Private family

farms

 

 

 

 

 

Autumn sowing − total

224 148

62 615

161 533

91

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cereals − total

207 299

53 320

153 979

88

 

 

 

 

 

Soft wheat, winter1)

140 427

42 651

97 776

81

Barley, winter

53 750

9 473

44 277

105

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oil rape

16 849

9 295

7 554

151

 

1)    Data refer to soft wheat, winter (mercantile and seed).

 

 

NOTES ON METHODOLOGY

 

Source and methods of data collection

 

The Report on Autumn Sowing collects data on land sown in autumn. Data on land sown are presented in hectares. These data are collected separately for business entities and parts thereof and for private family farms. Data are collected on reports, which are then submitted to the Central Bureau of Statistics by postal service.

 

Data for private family farms are collected by using the interview method applied to a selected stratified sample. The sample for private family farms was selected from the basic group according to the 2003 Agricultural Census.

 

In this survey for the first time the definition of an agricultural farm has been applied in accordance with the EU criteria.

 

The sample size was conditioned by the financial means allocated from the 2007 State Budget of the Republic of Croatia and the share of agricultural farms by counties

 

The sample consisted of 6 503 selected households in 15 counties. The interview was not carried out in 6 counties in which the monitored occurrence is insignificant, so data on them were estimated. These counties are: Dubrovnik-Neretva, Primorje-Gorski kotar, Split-Dalmatia, Šibenik-Knin, Istria and Zadar.

 

All expanded data have been compared to data from previous years, 2003 Agricultural Census data and available administrative sources (the Register of Agricultural Farms of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development etc.). On the basis of all available data, corrections were done if necessary.

 

 

Coverage and comparability

 

Reporting units are business entities and parts thereof taken over form the Register of Business Entities, which are defined in section A Agriculture, hunting and forestry according to the NKD 2002. (NN, No. 13/03). The selective coverage is applied. Data are collected on reports, which are then submitted to the Central Bureau of Statistics by postal service.

 

Reporting units are also households engaged in agricultural production, for which interviewers collected data. Private family farms have been selected from the 2003 Agricultural Census data base.

 

 

Abbreviations

 

ha       hectare

NN      Narodne novine, official gazette of the Republic of Croatia