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FIRST RELEASE |
CROATIAN
BUREAU OF STATISTICS ISSN 1334-0565 |
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YEAR: XLV. |
ZAGREB, 12 NOVEMBER, 2008 |
NUMBER: 1.1.7. |
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OBLIGED TO NOTIFY DATA SOURCE |
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In 2008, the actual yield of wheat amounted to 856 120 tonnes, which was by 5% more than the last year’s yield. The total yield of barley increased by 24%, the yield of oats by 19% and the yield of rapeseed by high 60%. The increase in the yield of crops is due to the increase in the sown area.
The actual yield of sweet and sour cherries decreased, as compared to the level of actual yield realised in 2007.
1. ACTUAL YIELD OF EARLY CROPS, SITUATION AS ON 15 AUGUST 2008
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Actual yield |
Indices of actual |
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Yield per hectare, t |
Total, t |
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Total |
Business |
Private family |
Total |
Business entities and |
Private family |
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Wheat1) |
5,36 |
6,17 |
5,16 |
856 120 |
292 927 |
563 193 |
105 |
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Barley |
4,93 |
5,74 |
3,94 |
280 005 |
67 139 |
212 866 |
124 |
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Oats |
3,29 |
3,92 |
3,24 |
66 630 |
5 605 |
61 025 |
119 |
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Rapeseed |
2,81 |
2,96 |
2,69 |
62 947 |
30 562 |
32 385 |
160 |
1) Soft wheat (winter, spring and seed) and durum wheat
2. ACTUAL YIELD OF EARLY FRUITS, SITUATION AS ON 15 AUGUST 2008
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Actual yield, total, t |
Indices of actual yield, |
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Total |
Business entities and parts thereof |
Private family farms |
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Sweet cherries |
5 339 |
71 |
5 268 |
67 |
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Sour cherries |
3 991 |
181 |
3 810 |
60 |
NOTES ON METHODOLOGY
Source and methods of data collection
The final data on harvested areas and actual yield of early crops and fruits are collected through the Report on Actual Yield of Early Crops and Fruits (PO-32a and PO-32b forms). Data on harvested areas of early crops are presented in hectares, while the total yield and yield per hectare are presented in tonnes. With regard to early fruits, surveys include fruit-bearing trees, the total yield, which is presented in tonnes, and yield per one bearing-tree presented in kilograms. These data are collected separately for business entities and parts thereof and for private family farms. Data concerning business entities and parts thereof are collected by reporting method and the reports are delivered by mail 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.
This is the survey in which the definition of an agricultural farm was applied in accordance with the EU criteria.
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.
Data on private family farms which didn't qualify according to the said definition and were therefore not included in the basic group for a sample, 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, Fisheries and Rural Development etc.). On the basis of all available data, corrections were done when necessary.
Data on yields refer to the situation as on 15 August.
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 National Classification of Activities, 2002 version (NN, No. 13/03). The coverage is selective.
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.
Definitions
Actual yield is the yield obtained after the harvest by deduction of all the losses before the harvest and during the transport and combine - harvesting etc. Since the moisture of cereals may vary due to the weather conditions, the actual yield is presented as an averagely moist yield, that is, grains estimated with 13% of moisture.
The actual yield of early fruits includes the yield of rape fruits.
Abbreviations
ha hectare
NN Narodne novine, official gazette of the Republic of Croatia
t tonne