Agricultural
area – area
utilised in the reference year by agricultural holdings for agricultural
production or maintained in good agricultural and environmental condition
(incl. arable land, permanent grassland, fruit and berry plantations, nurseries
and kitchen gardens).
Area not utilised for agricultural production but only maintained in
good agricultural and environmental condition is included from 2007.
Agricultural
holding – a single unit both technically and economically,
which has single management and which produces agricultural products or
maintains its land which is no longer used for production purposes in good
agricultural and environmental condition, where:
- there is at least one
hectare of utilised agricultural land or
- there is less than one hectare of utilised agricultural land
but agricultural products are produced mainly for sale.
Units where
agricultural products are not produced but only land is maintained in good
agricultural and environmental condition are included from 2007.
Agricultural
products – cereals, legumes, potatoes, fodder roots, linseed,
flax fibre, plants used for seasoning and herbs, vegetables, vegetable plants,
flowers, ornamental plants, fruits, berries, young plants of trees and bushes,
(excl. young plants of forest trees grown on wooded land), livestock and
poultry, meat, milk, eggs, wool, honey and wax.
Holder of
the holding –
a person who is legally and economically responsible for the holding. Holders
are divided into natural or legal persons.
Location of the holding –
location of the centre (if the centre is missing, the major part of the land)
of the holding. The centre of the holding is the permanent place of residence
of the holder or the place of main buildings within holding. All land and animals of the holding are
showed in the location of the holding, which may differ from the location of
land or animals.
Manure pits – dry manure pits, liquid manure
pits and slime pits used by the holding during 12 months preceding
the survey day.
Storage capacity of manure pit – the
number of months the storage facilities can hold the manure produced on the
holding, without any risk of run-off, and without any occasional emptying.
The Farm
Structure Survey (hereinafter FSS) provides information of the structure of
agriculture and its changes. Different from other agricultural statistics
surveys, FSS provides data for the whole agricultural holding, besides the
structure of holdings it provides also information about type of ownership of
agricultural land, crop production and livestock farming, main indicators of
organic farming, agricultural training of managers of holdings, types of
farming in holdings and other gainful activities of holdings, tractors and
machinery and labour force. Since 1966 the series of farm structure surveys are
carried out on a Community basis at least every ten years in a form of a census
and between the censuses usually in a form of a sample survey.
Statistics
In sample
based FSSs the sample frame has been the updated
statistical Farm Register, which was composed on the basis of the 2001
Agricultural Census data. A simple random sample stratified by the county where
the holding is located, economic size and type of farming has been used. All
the data presented are estimates of actual parameters. The list of the 2010
Agricultural Census has been composed on the basis of statistical Farm
Register, Administrative Registers and Information Board, Organic Farming
Register and other administrative sources.
Põllumajanduslikud majapidamised. 2005.
Agricultural holdings
The survey
has received funding from the European Community.
The
Commission of the European Communities is not responsible for the results of
the survey or any use that may be made of the information contained therein.
Andres Klaus
Agricultural Statistics Department
Tel +372 625 9390
Updated: 15.12.2011