Agriculture - Summary Report
The agricultural sector, according to national accounting statistics, made up 1.65% of overall GDP which represents an interannual drop of 0.28 percentage points. In the case of the food industry its share in GDP rose by 0.19 to 2.72%. In 2009 price development for agricultural products was very unfavourable. The interannual fall was 24.8% on average, which is the largest recorded fall since 1993. In the farming, forestry and fisheries sector there was a 5.1% interannual fall in the number of employees. At the same time, however, there was a slight growth in the share of the total number of employees, which was caused by a more marked fall in the overall number of employees (-5.9%). Agriculture is further characterised by a wage disparity and it lags behind the average for the CR in the level of wages (in 2009 it dropped to 73.1%). The growth in the nominal wage per worker was 0.2% and was 3.8 percent lower than the overall growth in wages in the CR. Considering the fact that the growth in nominal wages was lower than the rate of inflation there was a drop in real wages.