Agriculture
The Ministry of Agriculture of the Slovak Republic is the central authority of the State Administration. The ministry manages 4 important sectors of the state economy: agriculture, food industry, forest industry, hunting, fishing and waters development.
The Slovak Farm-produce Chamber (CHAAS) has an important position in the sector. There are 36 farm-produce chambers, 36 unions and professional associations and 28 non-productive organizations.
The basic rules of the land policy of Slovakia is: the long-term and permanent goals of land policy are the rational and effective exploitation of the agricultural soil potential, technical and human ressources for foodstuffs and non-dietary production, while respecting ecological requirements and the needs related to the protection of the landscape and to the preservation of the rural population. |
Farmland surface area:
| The areas under cultivation include arable lands and those with permanent crops. In Slovakia, they represent 1,604,000 hectares. |
Number of farms:
Livestock
Species |
Headcount |
Poultry
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13,000,000
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Number of tractors:
Irrigated land (surface area):
Fishing
Yield in metric tons
Shellfish, mollusks and cephalopods |
Saltwater fish |
Almost no productions of shellfish and mollusks in Slovak Republic.
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1,665 Tm.
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Aquacultural yield in metric tons:
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February 2004
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