LAND SOWN WITH CROPS, FRUIT TREES AND GRAPEVINES

FINAL DATA - as on 31 May, 2003

In the Republic of Croatia the total of 1 080 190 ha was land sown with crops, which is a decrease of 2% as compared to the previous year. The structure of the land sown is as follows: cereals make 64,1%, oil seeds 8,8%, sugar beets 2,5%, forage crops 11,1%, potatoes, leguminous and other vegetables 12,7%, while aromatic and other plants as well as tobacco make only 0,8%. As compared to the last year, the land sown with wheat shows a decrease of 12% while that sown with maize are same as previous year. The land sown with oil seeds shows an increase of 7%, where rape seed makes even 20% of the total decrease. Land sown with forage crops increased by 1%, while that sown with sugar beets increased 8% as compared to the last year.

1. LAND SOWN

hectares

	Total	Legal entities and their parts	Private family farms	Indices		2002 = 100
				Total	Legal entities and their parts		Private family farms
LAND SOWN, TOTAL	1 080 190	172 619	907 571	98	95		99
Cereals	692 478	104 760	587 718	96	90		98
Wheat - total^1)	206 112	46 732	159 380	88	83		90
Maize - total^2)	407 629	45 551	362 078	100	94		100
Potatoes - total^3)	63 098	616	62 482	98	133		97
Leguminous vegetables	8 732	983	7 749	104	138		101
Oil seeds	94 733	42 345	52 388	107	100		112
Soya-beans	50 013	21 093	28 920	104	97		110
Rape seed	15 903	11 473	4 430	120	108		171
Sunflowers	28 101	9 727	18 374	104	98		108
Tobacco	5 781	708	5 073	105	101		106
Sugar beets	27 310	12 571	14 739	108	97		120
Forage crops	120 508	8 902	111 606	101	114		100
Alfalfa^5)	41 007	3 216	37 791	99	98		99
Clover and mixtures^5)	35 414	975	34 439	101	129		100
Aromatic and other plants^6)	2 565	492	2 073	98	96		98
Other vegetables	64 985	1 242	63 743	102	158		101

1) Soft wheat (winter, spring and seed)

2) Mercantile and seed

3) Early, late and seed

4) Pea, fields pea, bean and other leguminous vegetables for production of drygrains

5) The autumn and spring sowing and the area with old production are included

6) Chamomile,sage, chicory, hop,sugar beets seed, forage crops seed and other

2. THE TOTAL OF TREES/GRAPEVINES

in '000

	Total	Legal entities and their parts	Private family farms	Indices		2002 = 100
				Total	Legal entities and their parts		Private family farms
Apples	5 252	1 776	3 476	106	113		102
Plums	6 112	33	6 079	99	97		99
Grapevines	314 411	17 278	297 133	98	95		98

3. LAND SOWN BY COUNTIES

hectares

	Total	Cereals	Potatoes, total	Leguminous vegetables	Oil seeds, total	Tobacco	Sugar beets	Forage crops	Aromatic and other plants	Other vegetables
THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA	1 080 190	692 478	63 098	8 732	94 733	5 781	27 310	120 508	2 565	64 985
I. County of Zagreb	85 250	55 635	5 290	858	1 387	-	18	15 648	-	6 414
II. County of Krapina-Zagorje	34 971	25 355	2 832	245	-	-	-	5 146	-	1 393
III. County of Sisak-Moslavina	53 461	38 006	2 758	563	2 177	-	76	6 038	-	3 843
IV. County of Karlovac	35 243	18 298	3 552	697	35	-	-	10 663	-	1 998
V. County of Varaždin	42 999	30 356	4 945	260	410	-	363	3 839	9	2 817
VI. County of Koprivnica-Križevci	66 204	53 913	1 931	244	1 106	40	913	5 359	73	2 625
VII. County of Bjelovar-Bilogora	73 129	54 118	5 529	675	3 328	87	643	6 350	5	2 394
VIII. County of Primorje- Gorski kotar	3 399	188	1 337	65	19	-	-	498	-	1 292
IX. County of Lika-Senj	24 163	10 016	4 572	280	-	-	-	8 528	-	767
X. County of Virovitica-Podravina	84 042	53 847	1 134	689	12 796	3 753	3 301	3 216	1 209	4 097
XI. County of Požega-Slavonija	38 557	26 121	2 016	288	3 618	1 231	1 171	2 329	113	1 670
XII. County of Slavonski Brod-Posavina	67 403	44 578	2 018	726	5 661	122	2 073	7 622	51	4 552
XIII. County of Zadar	13 959	2 886	5 182	17	-	-	-	1 312	-	4 562
XIV. County of Osijek-Baranja	208 326	139 487	3 761	1 485	32 998	425	9 801	14 315	578	5 476
XV. County of Šibenik-Knin	7 568	2 065	599	53	-	-	-	3 336	-	1 515
XVI. County of Vukovar-Sirmium	135 645	85 663	1 265	452	30 272	115	8 216	5 675	63	3 924
XVII. County of Split-Dalmatia	25 487	8 540	3 492	153	-	8	-	8 887	459	3 948
XVIII. County of Istria	26 502	10 203	4 520	442	119	-	-	7 043	-	4 175
XIX. County of Dubrovnik- Neretva	3 844	204	670	41	-	-	-	425	-	2 504
XX. County of Međimurje	35 601	26 199	4 070	221	771	-	735	1 549	-	2 056
City of Zagreb	14 437	6 800	1 625	278	36	-	-	2 730	5	2 963

NOTES ON METHODOLOGY

Source and methods of data collection

Data on arable land sown with crops, data on total agricultural land by type of cultivation, land under mixed and combined crops, number of fruit trees, grapevines and data on the renting of land for legal entities and their parts are collected through the Report on Land Sown and Crops, Fruit Trees and Grapevines at the end of spring harvest. These data are collected separately for legal entities and their parts and for private family farms.

Data on agricultural land refer to the situation as on 31 May of every year and persent agricultural land used in the reference year, that is, own land and land taken lease of minus rented land.

Coverage and comparabillity

Reporting units are legal entities and parts of legal entities as well as private family farms defined in the section A Agriculture, hunting and forestry and section B Fishing, according to the National Classification of Economic Activities (Narodne novine, official gazette of the Republic of Croatia, No. 3/97).

The coverage for legal entities and their parts is selective, and data are reported, while the coverage for private family farms is full and data are estimated.

Estimates are done by statistical estimators. They use cadastre data by categories of cultivation of agricultural land for every estimated area.

Estimated area is the area of one or more cadastral municipalities in an entirely.

Abbreviations

ha hectare

'000 thousand

Symbols

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