On the other hand, Croatia's sunflower hectarage decreased 20 percent to 30,000 hectares.
An increase was registered in areas with oil rape, soya, and sugar beet.
Thus, oil rape hectarage went up 29 percent to 29,000 hectares, soya went up 12 percent to 40,000 hectares and sugar beet went up 14 percent to 25,000 hectares.
According to estimates available to the bureau, maize areas decreased one percent to 310,800 hectares, with potato hectarage remaining at the same amount of 15,000 hectares.