Harvest Estimates - September 2018
Harvests of Maize, Potatoes, Sugar Beet, and Poppy Seed Weaker This Year
The estimated production as at 15 September 2018 expects a lower harvest of cereals, including grain maize, of 6 861 thous. tonnes (-7.9%). The year-on-year decline is, first of all, due to a lower per hectare yield of 5.15 t/ha (−6.7%). This year cereal harvest estimate is by 15.2% lower than the recent five-year average harvest.
The estimated harvest of industrial sugar beet of 3 306 thous. tonnes is by a quarter lower (-24.9%), y-o-y primarily due to a decrease in the per hectare yield to 51.04 t/ha (-23.3%). The areas under this crop slightly dropped to 65 thous. hectares (-2.0%). The expected industrial sugar beet production is by 17.8% lower than the production average for recent five years due to lower per hectare yields (-21.4%) although the areas under this crop have increased (+4.5%).
According to the estimate this year rape production is 1 383 thous. tonnes, i.e. by 20.7% more than in the last year. The increase was mostly caused by a growth in the per hectare yield to 3.36 t/ha (+15.5%) and also by an expansion of the area under this crop to 412 thous. hectares (+4.4%). This year production estimate is by 2.6% higher than the five-year average one due to an increase in the area under this crop.
The expected production of poppy seed plummeted by almost one third to 14 thous. tonnes (-31.3%), y-o-y. The decline is both due to a substantial reduction in the sowing area of this crop to 27 thous. hectares (-18.3%) and a decrease in the estimated per hectare yield of 0.52 t/ha (-16.1%). The estimated poppy seed production is also by 39.5% lower than the recent five-year average one.
The estimated production of sunflower for seed at 47 thous. tonnes is by 10.8% lower than its harvest in 2017 owing to a decline of this crop sowing area by 6.5% to 20 thous. hectares as well as a drop in the per hectare yield by 4.5% to attain 2.35 t/ha, y-o-y. The estimated sunflower for seed production will be by 8.5% higher than the recent five-year average one due to an expansion of the crop sowing area.
More detailed information on estimated per hectare yields and productions, also of selected varieties of fruit and vegetables in the Czech Republic as a whole, and broken by region are given in the following publication ‘Harvest Estimates – Operative Report as at 15 September 2018’.
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Responsible head at the CZSO: Jiří Hrbek, (+420) 274 052 331, e-mail: jiri.hrbek@czso.cz
Contact person: Jiří Hrbek, (+420) 274 052 331, e-mail: jiri.hrbek@czso.cz
Data source: statistical survey of Harvest Estimates of Crops (Zem V9) and
End of data collection: 14 September 2018
End of data processing: 12 October 2018
Following outcomes: Harvest Estimates – Operative Report as at 15 September 2018 - at
https://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/odhady-sklizne-operativni-zprava-k-15-9-2018
Areas under Crops Survey - 2018
https://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/soupis-ploch-osevu-k-31-5-2018
Update procedure: The finalised data on the production of agricultural crops for 2018 will be released by the Czech Statistical Office on 18 February 2019.
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Published: 15.10.2018
The data are valid as of the release date of the publication.
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