Cabinet Regulation No. 30 of 2010 on Procedures for Forecasting the Productivity of Crops, Conducting Agricultural Statistics Sample Surveys and Calculating the Gross Margin

This Regulation prescribes the procedures for forecasting the productivity of crops and conducting agricultural statistics sample surveys, and also the procedures for calculating the gross margin for groups of crop production and livestock. The plan for the forecast of the productivity of crops shall include surveying plan for the crop species to be surveyed (winter and spring wheat, rye, triticale, spring barley, oats, meslin, buckwheat, potatoes, spring and winter rape) broken down by regions in accordance with the data published by the Central Statistical Bureau on the placement of sowing fields and plantations within the territory of the country in the previous year; survey methodology for each group of crops (cereals, rape, potatoes), including survey techniques, selection of the field and time schedule, and also the method for the calculation of the average productivity forecast in regions; and time periods for the survey, laying down that the winter crops, spring crops and potatoes shall be surveyed three times during the vegetation period, and two times in the period the field of the crops is surveyed in two different phases of development, but the third survey is conducted after harvesting.