PRODUCTION OF VEGETABLES, FRUITS AND GRAPES, 2025 – Provisional Data

Increased production of tomatoes

In the group of vegetables, fruits and grapes, the production of tomatoes increased the most in 2025 compared to 2024, by 28 451 tonnes.

The production of other vegetables also increased: cabbage, white and red, by 9 708 tonnes, red peppers, capsicum, by 2 717 tonnes, beetroots, by 1 646 tonnes, lettuce, by 825 tonnes, cauliflower and broccoli, by 415 tonnes, and leek, by 174 tonnes, as well as the production of other fruits: mandarins, by 15 976 tonnes, and strawberries, by 211 tonnes.

The production of grapes also increased, by 23 237 tonnes.

Decreased production of apples

The production of apples decreased by 8 745 tonnes in 2025 compared to 2024.

The production of other fruits also decreased: plums, by 4 825 tonnes, sour cherries, by 3 837 tonnes, peaches and nectarines, by 975 tonnes, pears, by 826 tonnes, hazelnuts, by 810 tonnes, sweet cherries, by 488 tonnes, apricots, by 394 tonnes, figs, by 255 tonnes, walnuts, by 145 tonnes, as well as the production of other vegetables: green peas, by 4 065 tonnes, carrots, by 1 831 tonnes, watermelons, by 1 528 tonnes, melons, by 1 503 tonnes, onions and garlic, by 541 tonnes, green beans, by 710 tonnes, and cucumbers and gherkins, by 531 tonnes.

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

NOTES ON METHODOLOGY

The Croatian Bureau of Statistics conducted surveys on crop 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

Data were collected via the following surveys:

1. Report on the Annual Survey on Crop and Livestock Production (PO-71 form)
2. Report on Yield of Citrus Fruits and Olives (PO-34 form).

These reports collect data on harvested areas of vegetables, fruits and grapes expressed in hectares, while the production and yield per hectare are expressed in tonnes.

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

Data for private family farms were collected by interviewers using the personal 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 State Budget of the Republic of Croatia for 2025 and the share of private family farms by regions. The sample consisted of about 25 000 private family farms.

All expanded data were compared to the data from previous years and available administrative sources (bases and registers from the Single Application at 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, for which interviewers collected data.

Definitions

Kitchen gardens are areas scheduled for the growing of crops (mostly vegetables) that are intended for consumption by persons living in a household and that are mainly not intended for sale. Only occasional surplus of products grown on these areas is sold outside the household.

Intensive orchards are cultivated with a specific distance between the trees in which mechanised cultivation can be performed. As a rule, they are larger plantations of fruit trees (of 10 or more ares) or berries (excluding strawberries) intended for fruit growing for sale.

Extensive (traditional) orchards are country semi-intensive or extensive plantations of fruit trees of predominantly old sorts intended mostly for own consumption. Included are trees in (mixed) orchards as well as trees in yards, on boundary lines, by roads, etc.

The total production is the so-called stored production obtained after the harvest by deduction of all the losses before the harvest and during the transport and combine harvesting etc.

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