This year's wheat harvest in Croatia was around 753,000 tonnes, or 10.4 percent up from 2017, with rapeseed harvest also increasing, while the production of barley and oat dropped in the same period, the state statistics bureau said on Tuesday, in their estimates on harvests of important crops.

According to the bureau, wheat was sowed in 142,000 hectares, with the expected yield 5.3 tonnes per hectare, totalling 753,000 tonnes, or more than 10 percent up from last year. The increase in total harvested amount is attributed to the 26,000 hectares increase in land used for wheat farming.

The production of rapeseed increased by 8.8 percent compared to 2017. With 53,000 hectares used for farming that plant – the record high area sown with rapeseed since 1990 – the yield is expected to be around 148,000 tonnes, or 2.8 tonnes per hectare.

On the other hand, this year’s yield of barley dropped to 224,000 tonnes, or 13.8 percent down from the year before. A total of 52,000 hectares were sown with barley, with the estimated harvest to total 4.3 tonnes per hectare. The harvest of oat also dropped, by 5.9 percent from last year, totalling 64,000 tonnes, produced by 22,000 hectares.

The smaller yield for barley and oat was attributed to lower yield per hectare this year, with barley dropping by 500 kilogrammes per hectare and oat dropping by 100 kilogrammes per each hectare sown compared to last year, the bureau said.

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