Statistical publications “FADN survey results” are annually published since 1996. The publication of 2013 is based on accountancy data from 1300 family farms and 48 agricultural companies.
Selected farms cover all districts, natural zones and reflect different farming conditions. After the EU accession in 2004 Lithuania usually delivers data of 1000 - 1150 farms to the EU Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN). Lithuanian economic size threshold for FADN survey is 4 thousand Euro. Typology of the FADN sample was calculated with SO 2010 coefficients (Table 3), weighting of results was done based on FSS 2013 (table 4 and 5). Due to significantly higher SO 2010 coefficients compared to SO 2007, field of FADN survey increased by 16 per cent and amounted to more than 61 thousand farms.
Like in previous years, statistical results of family farms and agricultural companies are presented separately, as they are very different from both economic size and labour input. Some types of farming and economic size classes are aggregated. Weighted averages per farm are calculated for each group and whole country. Data of the previous year per country is also presented, what enables to compare farming results in the course of the last two years. Structures of the sample farms (family farms and agricultural companies) are revealed in the tables 6 and 7 respectively.
In family farms yield of cereals was slightly lower than in 2012, however, yield of protein crops, potatoes, sugar beet increased by 4-5 per cent. Sale prices of crops were growing for some years but in 2013 they decreased. On the other hand milk price was higher by 20 per cent. Inputs were larger by 12 per cent. Due to higher costs, lower yields and prices, farming results in family farms declined compared to 2012. Though subsidies on production were by 25 per cent higher that in 2012, these factors led to decrease of family net income by 21,5 per cent.
In agricultural companies the situation was similar to family farms: crop yields decreased for cereals, sale prices were lower for most crops, milk price significantly higher. Total output per 1 ha UAA decreased by 8 per cent. Though subsidies were larger, due to lower total output and higher costs, farm net income per 1 ha UAA decreased 2,5 times.
Cereal, oilseed and protein crop sector is very important to the Lithuanian agriculture, therefore, some cereals, oilseeds and protein crop farms (farming type 15) indicators in the EU member states are revealed in the tables 8 and 9 - ratio of total output and total inputs as well as subsidies on production per 1 ha UAA respectively. Period of 2004-2011 is covered in these tables. Ratio of total output and total inputs is not bad for Lithuania: only 8 EU member states have better results. As concerns subsidies on production per 1 ha UAA among the EU countries, they are rather low in Lithuania. Only Latvian, Bulgarian and Romanian farms received lower subsidies.
This publication contains 50 tables. Both family farms and agricultural companies are grouped by:
- economic size;
- type of farming;
- area;
- land quality point.
In addition family farms are grouped by:
- farmer’s age;
- counties;
- less favoured (LFA) and normal areas;
- organic farms.
Types of farming in family farms (row headings in the tables of family farms):
- specialist cereals, oilseeds and protein crops (TF 15);
- general field cropping, mixed cropping (TF 16, 61);
- horticulture and permanent crops (TF 23, 38);
- specialist dairying (TF 45);
- grazing livestock (TF 46, 47, 48, 73);
- specialist granivores (TF 51, 52);
- field crops-grazing livestock, combined (TF 83);
- various crops and livestock combined (TF 84).
Types of farming in agricultural companies (row headings in the tables of agricultural companies):
- crops (TF 15, 16);
- specialist dairying (TF 45);
- specialist granivores (TF 51, 52);
- specialist crops-grazing livestock, combined (TF 83).
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Ūkių veiklos rezultatai (ŪADT tyrimo duomenys) 2013 = FADN survey results 2013. - Vilnius: Lietuvos agrarinės ekonomikos institutas, 2014. - 108 p.: iliustr., lent. - Santr. angl. ISSN 2029-1221.
