ACTUAL YIELD OF LATE CROPS – previous data, Situation as on 10 November 2008

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ACTUAL YIELD OF LATE CROPS – previous data

situation as on 10 November 2008

The actual yield of maize in 2008 was 2 461 642 tonnes, of soya-beans 107 607 tonnes and of sugar beets 1 186 766 tonnes. The actual yields of late fruits were as follows: apples – 75 686 tonnes, plums – 48 519 tonnes.

1. ACTUAL YIELD OF LATE CROPS, SITUATION AS ON 10 NOVEMBER 2008

	Area, ha			Actual yield						Total production indices, final data 2007 = 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	Total	Business entities and parts thereof	Private family farms

Maize, total¹⁾	308 595	46 931	261 664	7,98	8,35	7,91	2 461 642	391 880	2 069 762	173
Potatoes (late and seed potatoes)²⁾	12 448	765	11 683	16,22	19,87	15,98	201 893	15 199	186 694	94
Soya-beans	35 763	14 863	20 900	3,01	3,08	2,96	107 607	45 743	61 864	119
Sunflowers	38 591	10 515	28 076	3,10	3,08	3,11	119 659	32 343	87 316	220
Sugar beets³⁾	20 847	9 588	11 259	56,93	59,99	54,32	1 186 766	575 194	611 572	75
Alfalfa, hay	24 691	3 946	20 745	7,75	8,19	7,67	191 355	32 332	159 023	139
Clover and mixture, hay	24 306	1 720	22 586	6,81	6,27	6,85	165 506	10 792	154 714	148

1) Including maize (mercantile and seed)

2) Harvested area and yield per hectare refer to main crops, while total yield refers to main and stubble grain crops. The production on open fields, in protected areas and in kitchen gardens is also included.

3) Data taken over from administrative sources

2. ACTUAL YIELD OF LATE FRUITS, SITUATION AS ON 10 NOVEMBER 2008

	Total, t			Total production indices, final data 2007 = 100
	Total	Business entities and parts thereof	Private family farms	Total production indices, final data 2007 = 100

Plums	48 519	453	48 066	76

Apples	75 686	31 945	43 741	96

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 data obtained from the agricultural farms to which the stated definition did not apply and that were not included in the basic group, have been estimated according to changes in the phenomena within a sample and 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 2008.

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. Data are collected on reports that are sent by mail to the Central Bureau of Statistics.

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

etc. and so on (from Latin: et cetera)

ha hectare

NN Narodne novine, official gazette of the Republic of Croatia

t tonne