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CROATIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS
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ISSN 1334-0565

 

YEAR: XLVI.

ZAGREB, 27 OCTOBER, 2009

NUMBER: 1.1.7.

 

 

OBLIGED TO NOTIFY DATA SOURCE

 

Actual yield of early crops,

Situation as on 15 August, 2009 (preliminary data)

 

In 2009, the actual yield of wheat amounted to 903 907 tonnes, which was by 5% more than the last year’s actual yield. The total yield of barley decreased by 12%, of oats by 4% and of rapeseed by 2%.

 

The increase in the yield of wheat is due to the increase in the sown area.

 

 

1.   ACTUAL YIELD OF EARLY CROPS, SITUATION AS ON 15 AUGUST 2009

 

Actual yield

Indices of actual
yield, total
2008 =100

 

Yield per hectare, t

Total, t

 

 

 

 

Wheat1)

5,0

903 907

105

Barley

4,1

244 225

88

Oats

3,0

62 916

96

Rapeseed

2,8

61 373

98

 

 

1)    Soft wheat (winter, spring and seed) and durum wheat

 

 

 

NOTES ON METHODOLOGY

 

Source and methods of data collection

 

The final data on harvested areas and actual yield of early crops are collected through the Report on Actual Yield of Early Crops (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. 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 2009 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 did not 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, the 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 2009

 

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, forestry and fishing according to the National Classification of Activities, 2007 version (NN, No. 58/07 and 72/07). 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 weather conditions, the actual yield is presented as an averagely moist yield, that is, grains estimated with 13% of moisture.

 

Abbreviations

 

etc        and so on (from Latin: et cetera)

ha        hectare

NN       Narodne novine, official gazette of the Republic of Croatia

t            tonne