Global Map of Irrigation Areas

Croatia

The area equipped for irrigation is 5790 ha [HR01]. Sub-national irrigation statistics as compiled by the Agricultural Census 2003 were available for the area actually irrigated during season 2002-2003 and were summing up to 5000 ha [HR02]. These statistics were scaled so that the sum in the whole country is equal to the value reported for the area equipped for irrigation. The area equipped for irrigation as calculated per county is documented in the table below. The corresponding irrigated area for 546 municipalities is documented in this table.

Irrigated area was distributed within the municipalities by assigning area equipped for irrigation to cultivated land as classified by the Corine 2000 land cover data base for Europe [HR03]. The highest priority was given to polygons classified as permanently irrigated land (212) while olive groves (223) and pastures (231) got the lowest priority levels:

References

[HR01]: ICID. Country profile Croatia. ICID, New Delhi, India, 12 pp., available at: http://www.icid.org/index_e.html, 07/07/2006.
[HR02]: Central Bureau of Statistics. 2004. Agricultural Census 2003. Zagreb, Croatia, available at: http://www.dzs.hr/, 07/07/2006.
[HR03]: EEA. 2005. Corine land cover 2000 - vector by country (CLC2000), version 1. (available at: http://dataservice.eea.europa.eu/dataservice/metadetails.asp?id=667).

Distribution of irrigated area in Croatia per county: