Organic farming
METHODOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS
SOURCE AND METHODS OF DATA COLLECTION
The data source is administrative, it is the Register of Organic Producers of
the Ministry of Agriculture. The Croatian Bureau of Statistics collects and
processes data sent by the control bodies.
OBSERVATION UNITS
Agricultural holdings that are in line with organic farming principles and
included in the system of control and certification defined in the Ordinance on
the Control System of Organic Production (NN,
No. 86/13).
COVERAGE
Full coverage of all entities recorded in the Register of Organic Producers at
the Ministry of Agriculture.
DEFINITIONS
Organic
agricultural holdings
are agricultural holdings with the label organic as defined in the Regulation
(EU) No 2018/834 of the European Parliament and the Council of 30 May 2018 on
organic production and labelling of organic products and repealing Council
Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 and the Ordinance on the Control System of Organic
Production (NN, No. 86/13).
Agricultural holdings in conversion
are agricultural holdings during the defined period before the acquirement of
the label organic.
Utilised
agricultural area
includes arable land, kitchen gardens, meadows, pastures, nurseries, orchards,
olive groves, vineyards and areas under other permanent crops.
Arable land
is a regularly farmed and cultivated area, which is under crop rotation for at
least last five years and planted or sown with arable crops, vegetables, flowers
and ornamental plants.
Meadows and
pastures
are areas used for grazing, making hay and silage.
Orchards
in organic farming include both intensive and extensive orchards.
Intensive
orchards
are bigger, dense orchards of fruit trees (of 0.1 hectare or more) and mainly
used for market. Plantations are organised so that modern agricultural
technology and mechanised cultivation can be used.
Extensive
orchards
are mostly grassland orchards predominantly of old sorts of fruit trees.
Vineyards
are areas where the vines are growing in dense plantations. Vines in the kitchen
gardens are not included in vineyards.
Olive
groves
are areas where olives are growing with the distance of at most 20 metres with
at most 10-metre band of auxiliary land.
Nurseries
are land areas used for growing woody plants intended for later replanting and
include:
- grape vines and offspring nurseries
- fruit tree and berry nurseries
- forest tree nurseries for commercial purposes (excluding those for holdings’
own needs grown within woodland)
- ornamental plant nurseries – includes tree seedlings and bushes for gardens,
parks, pathways and embankments (e.g., hedges, roses and other ornament bushes,
ornament conifers).
Organic
crop products
encompass data on utilised agricultural area with organic status, regardless of
further use or sale. Cultivated mushrooms in organic production are included.
Organic
products of animal origin
include meat, milk, honey and eggs for human consumption. Meat includes only
weight (dressed carcasses) of animals slaughtered in organic slaughterhouses.
Production of milk includes all milk produced on agricultural holdings with
organic livestock, regardless of further use or sale.
Organic
aquaculture
is the breeding or cultivation of aquatic organisms by using techniques designed
to increase the production capacity of organisms across national environment.
Abbreviations
Code New Cronos Code
EC European Community
ha hectare
m
metre
n. e. c. not elsewhere classified
NN
Narodne novine, official gazette of the Republic Croatia
t tonne
z data is not published for
confidentiality reasons
Symbols
- no occurrence