Organic farming

NOTES ON METHODOLOGY

SOURCE AND METHODS OF DATA COLLECTION

The data source is the administrative Register of Organic Producers of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. 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. 110/22).

COVERAGE

Full coverage of all entities recorded in the Register of Organic Producers of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.

NOTES

Organic production of crops and permanent crops refers to certified production.

DEFINITIONS

Organic agricultural holdings are agricultural holdings with the label organic as defined in the Regulation (EU) 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of 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. 110/22).

Agricultural holdings in conversion are agricultural holdings during the defined period before the acquirement of the label organic.

Utilised agricultural area includes arable land, gardens, kitchen gardens, meadows, pastures, nurseries, orchards, olive groves, vineyards and areas under other permanent crops.

Arable land and gardens are regularly farmed and cultivated areas, which have been under crop rotation for at least the last five years and are 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) 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 grown in dense plantations. Vines in the kitchen gardens are not included in vineyards.

Olive groves are areas where olive trees grow with a maximum spacing of 20 metres and a maximum of 10-metre band of auxiliary land.

Nurseries are land areas used for growing woody plants intended for later replanting and they 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 – which include tree seedlings and bushes for gardens, parks, pathways and embankments (e.g., hedges, roses and other ornamental bushes, ornamental 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 only includes the weight (of 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 farming or cultivation of aquatic organisms using techniques designed to increase the production of organisms beyond the national environmental carrying capacity.

Abbreviations 

Code    New Cronos code

EC       European Community

EU       European Union

ha        hectare

NN       Narodne novine, official gazette of the Republic Croatia

Symbols

-           no occurrence

z          data is not published for confidentiality reasons