Harvest forecast - June 2004
This year’s first estimates of agricultural crops are very favourable
Publication Date: 09. 07. 2004
Product Code: r-2102-04
This year’s first estimate of hectare yields and crop production made as at 20 June 2004 assumes the harvest of main cereals to reach 6,934 thousand tonnes (i. e. by 31,8 %) in terms of grain. The estimated production of rape and early potatoes is 731 thousand tonnes (i. e. by 88,6 %) and 122 thousand tonnes (i. e. by 6,9 %), respectively.
Compared to the final results for 2003 the production of main cereals is estimated to be higher by 1 672 thousand tonnes, of rape by 344 thousand tonnes and of early potatoes by 8 thousand tonnes.
The production of agricultural crops is expected higher because of larger sowing areas of main cereals (+149 thousand ha) and rape (+8.5 thousand ha) on the one hand and higher average hectare yields on the other hand. The yields expected are 4.58 t/ha for main cereals (3.86 t/ha in 2003), 2.82 t/ha for rape (1.55 t/ha) and 19.07 t/ha for early potatoes (16.08 t/ha).
The favourable development of the production expected this year primarily results from the good wintering of the crops sown in the autumn of 2003 and the rather cold weather with non-fluctuating precipitation in the spring months.
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Contact: Jiří Hrbek, phone (+420) 24 052 331, e-mail: hrbek@gw.czso.cz
Data source: CZSO sample survey in enterprises farming agricultural land
End of data collection: 21 June 2004Data source: CZSO sample survey in enterprises farming agricultural land
End of data processing: 7 July 2004
Related publications: 2121-04 Harvest Forecast in June ( https://csu.gov.cz )
Update : Next forecast of the yields and production of selected agricultural crops made as at 15 July 2004 will be released by the CZSO on 5 August 2004.