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BUREAU OF STATISTICS ISSN 1334-0565 |
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YEAR: XLVI. |
ZAGREB, 14 OCTOBER, 2009 |
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 2009 (preliminary data)
The total land sown with crops in the Republic of Croatia amounted to 872 156 ha. The structure of the land sown can be described as follows: cereals made 65.5%, dried pulses and vegetables 1.9%, root and tuber crops 4.1%, industrial plants 13.1%, green fodder from arable land 13.8% and fallow land, flowers as well as seed crops 1.6%.
As compared to the last year, the land sown with wheat showed an increase of 20%, while the land sown with maize showed a decrease of 6%. The land sown with oil seeds showed an increase of 7%, where land sown with soya beans made as much as 20% of the total increase. Land sown with green fodder from arable land increased by 3%, while the land sown with sugar beets decreased by 9%, as compared to the last year.
1. LAND SOWN, SITUATION AS ON 1 JUNE 2009
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Total |
Indices 2008. = 100 |
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LAND SOWN, TOTAL |
872 156 |
102 |
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Cereals |
571 526 |
102 |
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Of that, wheat1) |
188 024 |
120 |
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Of that, maize2) |
296 981 |
94 |
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Dried pulses |
3 013 |
102 |
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Root and tuber crops |
35 801 |
93 |
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Of that, sugar beet |
20 036 |
91 |
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Industrial plants |
114 108 |
106 |
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Oilseeds |
104 847 |
107 |
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Of that, rape seed |
21 950 |
98 |
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Of that, sunflowers |
38 361 |
99 |
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Of that, soya |
42 888 |
120 |
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Tobacco |
6 065 |
100 |
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Other industrial plants |
3 196 |
91 |
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Of that, aromatic and medicinal herbs, spices |
2 775 |
99 |
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Vegetables |
12 780 |
97 |
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Green fodder from arable land |
120 649 |
103 |
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Of that, silage maize |
26 166 |
93 |
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Of that, lucerne3) |
26 736 |
106 |
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Of that, clover3) |
23 251 |
94 |
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Fallow land |
13 079 |
103 |
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Flowers and ornamental plants |
300 |
100 |
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Seed crops |
900 |
122 |
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
NOTES ON METHODOLOGY
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 2009 State Budget of the Republic of Croatia and the share of agricultural farms by counties. The sample consisted of 11 000 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