AREAS AND PRODUCTION OF CEREALS AND OTHER CROPS, 2025 Provisional Data

Data on the actual production of cereals and other crops in 2025 are published according to provisional data.

Increased production of wheat

It is estimated that the production of wheat in Croatia increased by 235 thousand tonnes in 2025, as compared to the previous year. Furthermore, the estimated production of silage maize also increased, by 67 thousand tonnes, as well as of barley, by 58 thousand tonnes, sunflowers, by 24 thousand tonnes, and rapeseed, by 8 thousand tonnes as compared to the production realised in the previous year.

Decreased production of grain maize

It is estimated that the production of grain maize decreased by 365 thousand tonnes in 2025, as compared to the previous year. Furthermore, the production of sugar beets decreased by 65 thousand tonnes, of soya-beans by 55 thousand tonnes, of potatoes (early, late and seed) by 24 thousand tonnes, of lucerne by 21 thousand tonnes, and of oats by 5 thousand tonnes, as compared to the production realised in the previous year.

Final data will be available in the Database on 18 May 2026.

NOTES ON METHODOLOGY

The Croatian Bureau of Statistics conducted surveys on crops statistics on the basis of the Official Statistics Act (NN, Nos 25/20, 155/23, and 124/25 – corr.), Regulation (EU) 2022/2379 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 November 2022 on statistics on agricultural input and output, amending Commission Regulation (EC) No 617/2008 and repealing Regulations (EC) No 1165/2008, (EC) No 543/2009 and (EC) No 1185/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Directive 96/16/EC, and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1538 of 25 July 2023 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) 2022/2379 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards crop production statistics.

Sources and methods of data collection

The data on harvested areas and production of crops are collected through the Report on Annual Survey on Crop and Livestock Production (PO-71 form). Data on harvested areas of crops are presented in hectares, while the production and yield per hectare are presented in tonnes. Due to the rounding of data on areas and production, the data on the yield per hectare may deviate.

These data are collected separately for business entities and parts thereof, and for private family farms. Data on business entities are collected in two ways: by using the reporting method on an appropriate form or via a web-based application.

Data for private family farms have been collected by using the interview method applied to a selected stratified sample. The sample for private family farms was selected from the Statistical Register of Agricultural Holdings.

The sample size was conditioned by the financial means allocated from the 2025 State Budget of the Republic of Croatia and the share of private family farms by statistical regions. The sample consisted of about 25 000 private family farms.

All expanded data were compared to data from previous years and available administrative sources (databases and registers from the Single Application of the Paying Agency for Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development and other relevant sources). On the basis of all available data, corrections were done if necessary.

Coverage and comparability

Reporting units are business entities and parts thereof defined in section A Agriculture, forestry and fishing according to the NKD 2025 as well as other business entities and parts thereof engaged in agricultural production but classified in other activities.

Reporting units are also private family farms engaged in agricultural production.

Definitions

Harvested areas are areas on which crops and yields have been harvested.

Actual production is the production obtained after the harvest by deduction of all losses before the harvest and during the transport and combine-harvesting etc.

Since the moisture of cereals may vary due to different weather conditions, the actual yield is presented as yield of an average moisture, that is, the yield of grains with 13% of moisture, except for grain maize, which is presented as containing 14% of moisture.

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Edita Omerzo, Director of Spatial Statistics Directorate
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