Agricultural land represents the lands plots used systematically for obtaining agricultural production. The area of the agricultural land is set from: arable land, perennial plantations (vineyards, orchards, and nut plantations), pastures and hayfields.
Agricultural production in value expression is calculated in current prices, also in prices of 2005 - for comparability at the calculation of relative indicators, and it is determined as the sum of plant and animal production.
Agricultural production sale volume covers the sale of own agricultural production obtained by the agricultural enterprises and organizations producing agricultural products (including farms with agricultural land area of 50 ha and over), regardless of the organizational-legal form and ownership type, through all sale channels, including the production sold through barter. The quantity of the agricultural production sold to enterprises and organizations collecting and processing agricultural production is indicated in equivalent mass, received for payment; through other sale channels – in physical mass.
Agricultural production value is reflected: with increments and price discounts for the quality of the sold production, excepting the taxes on products which are to be paid (value added tax, excise duties, transportation fees, production loading and unloading). The value of the agricultural production does not include the amounts of allowances and compensations for the expenses incurred for the agricultural production from the state budget and other sources.
Agricultural production sale price – the monetary value of a production unit.
Agricultural production average sale price is calculated by groups of products, specifying the main agricultural crops.
Agricultural production price indices are calculated based on real average prices set for the sold production during the reported period, in percentages as against the previous year.
The price indices may be obtained in two ways:
- Individual agricultural products’ price indices, which measure the evolution of prices for certain agricultural products sold during the current period as against the base or reference period.
- Aggregated price indices (Paasche formula), which are calculated by groups of products:
- cereals and leguminous-crops
- industrial crops
- potatoes
- vegetables
- melons and gourds
- forage crops
- fruits and berries
- grapes
- planting material for orchards, vineyards and fruit trees
- flowers
- dry walnuts
- livestock and poultry (in live weight)
- milk
- eggs
- wool (in natural weight)
- karakul and skin
- bee honey
Physical volume induces of agricultural production sale – are calculated as the ratio between the quantity of production during the reported period in prices of the base period and the value of production during the base period in prices of the base period.
Arable land represents the agricultural land plots systematically processed (ploughed) and used for sowing agricultural crops and perennial herbs.
Cattle livestock – population of cattle and poultry in all the holdings which carry out agricultural activity, regardless of the fact if it is for market sale purpose or for internal consumption of the household (nutrition, etc.).
The main breeds of agricultural animals are the following:
- cattle;
- pigs;
- sheep and goats;
- horses.
Cattle – all the animals from cattle species, regardless of the sex, age or economic destination.
Cows – females who have calved at least once.
Reproduction bulls – males used effectively as breeders.
Work cattle – males altered at an age of over 2 years.
Calves of over 1 year – number of calf males and females of over 1 year.
Pigs – all the animals from pigs’ species, regardless of the sex, age, and economic destination.
Sows – females who have calved once and more times.
Pigs of 4 months and over – number of pigs of over 4 months. This group includes the young
females and males, without including the number of boars for reproduction.
Sheep – all the animals from the sheep species, regardless of the sex, age, and economic destination.
Lambing sheep – females who have lambed once and more times.
Goat – total number of goats (adults and youth), as well as he-goats.
Kidding goats - number of she-goats who have kidded at least once.
Horses – total number of horses, regardless of the sex, age, and economic destination.
Poultry – total number of poultry, regardless of the age and sex.
Rabbits – total number of rabbits for meat, skin, and angora hair.
Bee families – total number of bee families.
Eggs production – all the quantity of eggs collected during one year, for all kinds of poultry, including the eggs used for poultry reproduction (incubation etc.).
Farms – form of entrepreneurship activity performed by using the land plot and the patrimony in the private ownership or use of the farmer who deals with production, processing, and sale of agricultural production. This category of producers includes also the persons who were given land parcels in the counterpart of shares of equivalent land, but did not register the households in the established way. The volume of vegetal production for this category of producers includes only the global yield of the agricultural crops obtained on farmers’ lands, excluding the production from the near house plots.
Gross harvest represents the volume of plant production obtained from all the areas of agricultural crops/perennial plantations (separately by crops and groups of crops) in natural expression, without harvesting losses, including the production resulting from the change of crops’ destination.
The gross harvest of agricultural crops is the volume of vegetable production obtained from all areas of agricultural crops / perennial plantations (separate crops and groups of crops) in natural terms, including production obtained on successive sowings, between rows and production resulting from the exchange of crops.
Gross output in current prices includes also the value of market services (for payment) provided by enterprises serving agriculture and agricultural enterprises, households producing agricultural production and non-market services, provided by budgetary institutions and organizations.
Hayfields represent the lands covered with herbal vegetation, grown in natural way, meant for hay harvesting.
Meat production includes the meat of all kinds of livestock and poultry, fats, foodstuff by-products. Data concern both to industrial and household slaughtering of livestock and poultry.
Milk production – quantity of cow, sheep, goat milk regardless of the fact if it was sold or part of it was used in the households for lactation of calves and piglets. The milk sucked by the claves is not included in the production and is not calculated when determining the average quantity of milk stropped from a cow.
Pastures represent lands covered with herbal vegetation, grown in natural way, meant for animal pasturing.
Perennial plantations – agricultural land planted with orchards, vineyards and nut plantations:
- Orchards – plantations of trees, regardless of the age and species (stone and seed);
- Fruit bush plantations – are berry plantations (raspberries, strawberries, currants, gooseberries, etc.);
- Nut plantations – plantations of nuts, hazel nuts and other species (almond, etc.);
- Vineyards – plantations of vineyards, regardless of the age, species and destination.
Population households – agricultural production produced by using the work performed by members of the household (on the near house plots and gardens) to meet the needs for food products and other needs.
Production (breeding) of cattle and poultry – volume (weight) of live weight of the live born, increase in mass when growing and fattening minus the mass of perished cattle. The volume of breeding production of animals is calculated by the main types of productive animals.
Production (sale) of cattle and poultry for slaughtering in live weight – includes the live mass of animals and poultry of all types for slaughtering. The calculation of the volume of meat production is determined by number of slaughtered cattle and their weight. The number of slaughtered cattle includes the cattle sold to procurement organizations, through other sale for slaughtering, as well as the cattle slaughtered in own households. The other sales for slaughtering include the cattle sold on the market, except for the claves, lambs, sheep up to 6 months, pigs – 2 months, and poultry chicks.
Small agricultural producers – this category of producers includes population households and farms with land plots of up to 10 ha, registered in the established way, and the persons who were given parcels in the counterpart of shares of equivalent land, but did not register the household in the established way.
Sown area – arable land sown with agricultural crops and areas sown with agricultural crops between rows of orchards and vineyards.
The average harvest per hectare of perennial plantations is calculated based on the overall harvest obtained from the areas per fruit relative to the area per fruit.
The average harvest per hectare of agricultural crops is calculated, based on the overall harvest from the main sowings, from 1 ha of harvested area of the relevant crop.
Volume of animal production is determined by the quantity of live weight, the increase received and the growth of young animals for year, the increase in weight of mature animals, in the result of fattening, and also the quantity of milk, wool, eggs and other animal products obtained in the result of use of animal and poultry, having no relation with their slaughtering. The volume of animal production is expressed in current and comparable prices.
Volume of plant production is determined by the size of global yield of agricultural crops, and is expressed in current and comparable prices.
Wool production includes all sheep wool, regardless whether it was sold or used for households needs. The wool received during industrial processing of leather (the so-called “acidic wool”) is not included in the production. The wool production is presented in natural weight (i.e. weight of non-washed wool) just after shearing.