Management and Implementation of Management and Implementation of Statistical Surveys on Use of Mineral Statistical Surveys on Use of Mineral

Fertilizers and Pesticides in the Republic of Fertilizers and Pesticides in the Republic of BelarusBelarus

(experience and practice)

Zoya Yakubovskaya

NATIONAL STATISTICAL COMMITTEE OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

Statistical survey on use of mineral fertilizers and pesticides in the Republic of Belarus is carried out by the

National Statistical Committee

Data on land availability by the categories of land users are provided by the

State Property Committee

Dynamics of Production and Mineral Fertilization in the Republic of Kazakhstan

thou tones; in terms of 100% of nutrients

Dynamics of Mineral Fertilization by Agricultural Organization in the Republic of

Belarus by Types

thou tones; in terms of 100% of nutrients

• agricultural organizations – legal entities, separated

divisions of legal entities that perform agricultural activities;

• peasant (farm) enterprises;

• population households.

Data Collection is Performed by Main Groups of Agricultural Producers:

as of the beginning of 2012

Quantity, units

Total area of agricultural lands,

thou ha

Structure of agricultural lands,

as % of total Total 8,874.0 100

including agricultural organizations 1,570 7,667.1 86.4 peasant (farm) enterprises 2,337 127.5 1.4 population households, thou

1,288.8 902.4 10.2

Distribution of Agricultural Lands by the Categories of Land Users

Main Survey Methods are:

• For large agricultural organizations and peasant (farm) enterprises

– continuous method on the basis of the form of annual state statistical accounting;

• For population households – annual cluster sampling on the basis of questionnaire.

Statistical Survey Program for Large Agricultural Organizations and Peasant (Farm)

Enterprises

• quantity of mineral fertilizers in terms of 100% of nutrients used for crops, perennial plants, haylands and pastures, in protected area – total and by types of fertilizers: nitrogen, phosphoric, potash;

• balance of mineral fertilizers – total and by types of fertilizers;

• balance of pesticides– total and by types of pesticides.

Summary Data are Generated across the Republic in whole and Administrative Regions

• on quantity of applied mineral fertilizers:• per one hectare of agricultural lands;• per one hectare of croplands;• per one hectare of crop area for cereals and pulse crops,

potatoes, vegetables, sugar beet, flax, feed crops;• per one hectare of fertilized area of perennial plant,

haylands and pastures.

Balance of mineral fertilizers (reserves of mineral fertilizers as of the beginning and the end of reporting period, incoming, use, losses) – total and by types of fertilizers: nitrogen, phosphoric, potash

Balance of pesticides (reserves of pesticides as of the beginning and the end of reporting period, incoming, use) – total and by types: insecticides, herbicides, fungicides and disinfectants.

Cluster Sampling of Agricultural Activities of Population Households

• performed regularly from July 1, 2011 and covers 3,600 private households, or 0.3% out of all households;

• results of cluster sampling show that 99.5% of households use mineral fertilizers .

Distribution of Statistics

• statistical publications: statistical bulletin, press-releases;• issue of the annual statistical book “Agriculture of the

Republic of Belarus”;• chapters in the statistical books: “Statistical Yearbook of

the Republic of Belarus”, “Regions of the Republic of Belarus”, “Environment Protection in the Republic of Belarus”;

• questionnaires provided for international organizations;• Belstat web-site – http://www.belstat.gov.by

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