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
Yield of
agricultural crops
per
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.
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.