Agriculture, hunting, forestry. Fishing

 

This section presents information about agriculture, hunting, forestry and fishing.

Agricultural production is the crop and animal products obtained from sown of agricultural crops and the use of agricultural livestock. It also includes the volume of changes of incomplete production in crop output, volume of the produced perennial plants over year, and livestock and poultry growth obtained as a result of breeding and feeding. Production is estimated at constant prices and calculated as average weighted prices for marketable and non-marketable part of agricultural production. Constant prices are the 2010 average prices.

Agricultural enterprise is a business entity with right of legal person or an independent unit of legal person that performs systematic economic activity in agriculture. Farms are also put into agricultural enterprises. Tables 8.9, 8.10 and 8.11 present data on the number of operating enterprises by basic type of economic activity. The other tables present data for all enterprises, which are engaged in process of agricultural production and services regardless of their main type of activity.

Farm is a form of business activity of citizens set up as a legal person who wish to produce agricultural products, and are engaged in processing and sale to earn profit from land plots.

Profitability rate of agricultural produce is compiled as a ratio of profit (loss) from the sales of agricultural produce to its full self-cost.

Agricultural holdings of households are households engaged in agricultural activity with the purpose of producing foodstuffs for their own needs and producing marketable products. This category of producers includes natural persons (businessmen) who operate in agriculture.

Agricultural  lands are land plots that are used to produce agricultural products. They includes arable land (bare fallow), gardens, vineyards, hay-mowing, pastures, fallow lands.

Irrigated land area includes areas equipped with the irrigation facilities (ditches, pipes, gutters) connected to the irrigation sources.

Drained land area is the land that has a draining system to ensure regular water and air supply in order to make the lands useful for agriculture.

Output of basic agricultural crops reported by agricultural enterprises includes initial and secondary harvesting as well as sowings between the rows. For private agriculture, the gross harvest of crops is based on census data referring to the size of the sown area cultivated by farm and to the average yield per 1 ha of the sown area (based on the sample survey). Gross harvest of grain and leguminous plants and sunflowers is measured as weight after processing, sugar beets (for processing) are measured without soil, beet tops and medley, vegetables are products of the closed soil.

Yield of agricultural crops per 1 ha of the harvested area is calculated on the basis of gross harvest obtained from principal and secondary harvesting and between row sowing and actual harvested area of a given crop. Fruit and berry crop per 1 ha of the harvested area at fruit-bearing age.

Collective horticulture and market gardening is a form of land use stipulated by the land legislation. This comprises land plots  allocated for the collectives functioning on cooperative principles for the purpose of constructing summer cottages, the development of horticulture and market gardening.

Livestock and poultry population as of 1 January is defined on the basis of annual complete reporting. It includes livestock of all sex and age groups by appropriate type of livestock and poultry.  

Meat production consists of the amount of livestock and poultry sold for slaughtering. It includes meat of all types of livestock and poultry, raw animal fat and

edible offal. Data refer to both industrial and inter-farm slaughter of livestock and poultry.

Milk production is the actual quantity of milk yield taken from cows, sheep, mares and goats irrespective of whether it was sold or consumed either by calves or piglets. Milk consumed directly by calves is not included in production.

Egg production consists of annual quantity of eggs from all of poultry. Eggs used for poultry reproduction (incubation) are included.

Wool production includes the actual quantity of wool shorn from the live sheep and goat hides regardless of whether it was sold or consumed within a farm. Wool removed from hides during processing into leather is excluded (so-called skin wool). Weight of wool is given in physical terms (unwashed wool weight) directly after shaving.

Average annual milk yield per cow is based on the number of cows at the beginning of the year, regardless of whether a cow gave milk during the reference period. Milk yield per cow is based on the total number of cows on the farm, excluding cows kept for fattening, cows of meat and cows kept for breeding, provided these cows were not milked.

Products sold are products sold by agricultural enterprises (excluding small enterprises) through all channels: by re-processors, consumer cooperatives, on the markets, population as labour remuneration (including restaurant business system), plot-holders as the payments for the land and land shares, and other channels.

It does not include products for processing (excluding sugar beets).

Hunting area is the land and water (forest, fields, meadows, swamps, lakes, etc) which are inhabited with animals that could be used for hunting or game shooting and catching.

Hunting animals are the wild beasts and birds that could be huntable species.

Forested lands are forest lands which are planted with trees.

Volume of products, operations and services of forestry includes timber products, auxiliary forestry, operations and services associated with forestry and calculated at current wholesale prices (VAT not included).

Logging is a clear-cutting of ripe trees on a special parcel of forest in order to obtain  wood. It also includes the felling of some trees planted for the purpose of cultivation and protection of the forest, and procurement of  wood when cleaning blocked forest trails.

Merchantable wood is wood that can be used for economic purposes.

Main felling is felling of the ripe trees to production the timber.

Test felling is a periodical felling of a part of the planted trees and bushes which are made since the beginning of planting, but before the main felling, to make the necessary storage, and improve planting.

Forest restoration is the planting, natural reforestation, etc on deforested area.

Harvesting of water bio-resources of all types; includes the capture of fish, and extraction of the spineless, crustacea, and algal in seas, oceans, rivers, lakes and other waters whether natural or bred artificially.