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ISSN 1334-0565

 

YEAR: XLVI.

ZAGREB, 23 FEBRUARY, 2009

NUMBER: 1.1.3.

 

 

OBLIGED TO NOTIFY DATA SOURCE

 

AUTUMN SOWING, situation as on 15 December 2008 - previous data

 

In the 2008 autumn sowing, the land sown with cereals and oil rape amounted to 249 412 ha.

 

In regard to the structure of the land sown with cereals in the 2008 autumn sowing, the major area was sown with wheat (74.0%) and barley (24.0%). As compared to the last year, the total land sown in the 2007 autumn sowing increased by 11%. The land sown with cereals increased by 9%.

 

 

1.   LAND SOWN IN AUTUMN with cereals and oil rape, situation as on 15 December 2008

 

Land sown, ha

Total land sown

Indices

2008.
2007.

2007.

2008.

 

 

 

 

Autumn sowing − total (cereals and oil rape)

224 148

249 412

111

 

 

 

 

Cereals − total

207 299

226 791

109

Of that:

 

 

 

Soft wheat, winter1)

140 427

167 287

119

Barley, winter

53 750

54 400

101

 

 

 

 

Oil rape

16 849

22 621

134

 

 

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 for business entities 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 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 2008 State Budget of the Republic of Croatia and the share of agricultural farms by counties

 

The sample consisted of 9 000 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 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

 

EU                European Union

ha                hectare

NKD 2002.   National Classification of Activities, 2002 version

NN               Narodne novine, official gazette of the Republic of Croatia