FIRST RELEASE		CROATIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS 10000 ZAGREB, ILICA 3, PHONE: +385 1 4806-111, P.O.B. 80, CROATIA ISSN 1334-0565
YEAR: XLV.	ZAGREB, 26 MARCH, 2008		NUMBER: 1.1.9.
				OBLIGED TO NOTIFY DATA SOURCE

ACTUAL YIELD OF LATE CROPS, FRUITS AND GRAPES

situation as on 10 November, 2007 (Previous Data)

The actual yield of maize in 2007 was 1 424 599 tonnes, of soya 90 637 tonnes and of sugar beet 1 582 606 tonnes. The actual yields of late fruits were as follows: apples – 78 747 tonnes, plums – 64 237 tonnes.

1.   OSTVARENI PRIROD KASNIH USJEVA, STANJE 10. STUDENOGA 2007.

      ACTUAL YIELD OF LATE CROPS, SITUATION AS ON 10 NOVEMBER 2007

	Area, ha			Actual yield						Total production indices, final data 2006 = 100
	Total	Business entities and parts thereof	Private family farms	Yield per hectare, t			Total, t
				Total	Business entities and parts thereof	Private family farms	Total	Business entities and parts thereof	Private family farms
Maize, total^1)	288 549	37 258	251 291	4,94	5,39	4,87	1 424 599	200 812	1 223 787	74
Potatoes (late and seed potatoes)^2)	12 807	805	12 002	16,75	15,89	16,80	215 333	12 797	202 536	113
Soya-beans	46 506	15 962	30 544	1,95	2,10	1,87	90 637	33 520	57 117	52
Sunflowers	20 615	4 770	15 845	2,63	2,98	2,53	54 303	14 215	40 088	67
Sugar beets	34 316	16 228	18 088	46,11	47,22	45,13	1 582 606	766 295	816 311	102
Alfalfa, hay	23 959	3 506	20 453	5,73	6,14	5,66	137 291	21 527	115 764	84
Clover and mixture, hay^3)	20 948	982	19 966	5,11	5,34	5,10	111 675	5 346	106 329	92
Cabbage and kale^4)	2 088	139	1 949	16,90	28,56	16,07	38 300	4 205	34 095	79

1) Including maize (mercantile and seed)

2) Harvested area and yield per hectare refer to main crops, while total yield refers to main, successive and stubble grain crops. The production on arable land, gardens and kitchen
    gardens is also included.

3) Harvested area and yield per hectare are shown for main crops, while total yield refers to main, successive and stubble grain crops.

4) Harvested area and yield per hectare refer to main crops, while total yield refers to main, successive and stubble grain crops. The production of cabbage and kale on
    arable land, gardens, in protected areas and in kitchen gardens is also included.

2.   ACTUAL YIELD OF LATE FRUITS, SITUATION AS ON 10 NOVEMBER 2007

	Total, t			Total production indices, final data 2006 = 100
	Total	Business entities and parts thereof	Private family farms
Plums	64 237	309	63 928	129
Apples	78 747	35 048	43 699	107

NOTES ON METHODOLOGY

Source and methods of data collection

The final data on harvested areas and actual yield of late crops and fruits are collected through the Report on Actual Yield of Late Crops and Fruits (PO-33a and PO-33b forms). Data on harvested areas of late crops are presented in hectares, while total yield and yield per hectare are presented in tonnes. Fruit production is presented in tonnes.

These data are collected separately for legal entities and parts thereof and for private family farms. Data concerning business entities are collected by reporting method and the reports are delivered by mail to the Central Bureau of Statistics.

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

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

The sample size was conditioned by the financial means allocated from the State Budget of the Republic of Croatia and the share of agricultural farms by counties. The sample consisted of 11 001 households.

The rest of the data, which 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 Address Book of Private Family Farms of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development etc.). On the basis of all available data, corrections were done if necessary.

Data on yields refer to the situation as on 10 November 2007.

Coverage and comparability

Reporting units are business entities and parts thereof taken over from 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 and data are collected by using the postal method.

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

Harvested areas are areas on which crops and yield have been harvested.

Actual yield is a yield obtained after the harvest by deduction of all 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 moisture yield, that is, grains estimated with 14% of moisture.

The number of fruit-bearing trees comprises all fruit trees that are, in respect of their age and physical development, able to bear fruits, regardless of bearing in the respective year.

The actual yield of late fruits includes the yield of rape fruits.

Abbreviations

ha     hectare

NN    Narodne novine, official gazette of the Republic of Croatia

t         tonne