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FIRST RELEASE |
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BUREAU OF STATISTICS ISSN 1334-0565 |
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YEAR: XLV. |
ZAGREB, 29 OCTOBER, 2008 |
NUMBER: 1.1.5. |
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OBLIGED TO NOTIFY DATA SOURCE |
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LAND SOWN WITH CROPS
Situation as on 1 June 2008 (preliminary data)
In the Republic of Croatia the total of 844 190 ha was land sown with crops. The structure of the land sown was described as follows: cereals made 66.5%, oil seeds and fruits 11.6%, tobacco 0.7%, sugar beets 2.6%, forage crops 13.7% and flowers as well as aromatic and other plants 0.5%, while potatoes, leguminous and other vegetables made 4.3%.
As compared to the last year, the land sown with wheat showed a decrease of 10%, while the land sown with maize showed an increase of 8%. The land sown with oil seeds showed an increase of 19%, where sunflower made 87% of the total increase. Land sown with forage crops showed an increase of 10%, while the land sown with sugar beets showed a decrease of 36%, as compared to the last year.
1. LAND SOWN, SITUATION AS ON 1 JUNE 2008
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Total |
Business entities |
Private family farms |
Indices 2007. = 100 Total |
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LAND SOWN, TOTAL |
844 190 |
181 636 |
662 554 |
102 |
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Cereals |
561 782 |
108 630 |
453 152 |
101 |
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Wheat − total1) |
156 669 |
47 523 |
109 146 |
90 |
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Maize − total2) |
313 779 |
46 595 |
267 184 |
108 |
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Oil seeds |
98 063 |
36 159 |
61 904 |
119 |
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Soya-beans |
35 816 |
14 913 |
20 903 |
77 |
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Rape seed |
22 409 |
10 370 |
12 039 |
171 |
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Sunflowers |
38 635 |
10 559 |
28 076 |
187 |
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Tobacco |
6 084 |
481 |
5 603 |
101 |
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Sugar beets |
22 000 |
11 346 |
10 654 |
64 |
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Forage crops |
115 989 |
20 813 |
95 176 |
110 |
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Alfalfa3) |
25 324 |
4 015 |
21 309 |
106 |
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Clover and mixtures3) |
24 657 |
1 722 |
22 935 |
118 |
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Flowers, aromatic and other plants4) |
4 158 |
1 188 |
2 970 |
60 |
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Potatoes, leguminous and other vegetables5) |
36 114 |
3 019 |
33 095 |
97 |
1) Soft wheat (winter, spring seed and durum)
2) Mercantile and seed
3) Including the autumn and spring sowing and the area with old production
4) Chamomile, sage, chicory, hop, seeds, planting material and other
5) Including cultivation on arable land, in gardens, protected areas and kitchen gardens
Sources and methods of data collection
At the end of the spring harvest, the Report on Land Sawn with Crops is used in collection of data on land sawn with crops on arable land, in gardens, protected areas and kitchen gardens. Data on total used agricultural areas by type of cultivation, These data are collected separately for legal entities and parts thereof and for private family farms. Data concerning business entities are collected through reports which are then submitted by postal service to the Central Bureau of Statistics.
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.
The sample size was conditioned by the financial means allocated from the 2008 State Budget of the Republic of Croatia and the share of agricultural farms by counties. The sample consisted of 11 001 households.
This is the survey in which the definition of an agricultural farm was applied in accordance with the EU criteria.
The rest of the data, which didn’t qualify according to the said definition and were not included in the basic group, were estimated according to changes in phenomena within a sample and were added to the sample data. All expanded data were compared to data from previous years, 2003 Agricultural Census data and available administrative sources (the Register of Agricultural Farms of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management etc.). On the basis of all available data, corrections were done if necessary.
Data on agricultural land refer to the situation as on 1 June and present agricultural land used in a reference year, that is, own land and land leased minus land rented.
Coverage and comparability
Reporting units are business entities and parts thereof taken over form the Register of Business Entities, which are defined in sections A Agriculture, hunting and forestry and B Fishing, according to the NKD 2002. (NN, No.13/03). The coverage is selective. Data are collected through reports which are then submitted by postal service to the Central Bureau of Statistics.
Reporting units are also households engaged in agricultural production, for which interviewers collected data. Agricultural households were selected from the 2003 Agricultural Census data base.
Abbreviations
ha hectare
NKD 2002. National Classification of Activities, 2002 version
NN Narodne novine,
official gazette of the Republic of
Croatia