Gross Harvest

of agricultural crops:

(1) Economic gross harvest is the volume of different crops cultivated, with a calculated factor of losses that appear to be unavoidable in given economic and organizational conditions and a given level of technology. Economic gross harvest data cover the years 1933-39.

(2) Gross harvest in the field means the production of different agricultural crops cultivated on currently utilized arable land at the moment of complete ripening of the harvest (the so-called biological harvest). Data for this category of gross harvest cover the period 1933-53.

The gross harvest of agricultural crops for the period 1933-53 has been recalculated as the gross product of the agricultural sector of the economy.