Balances of Agricultural Products and Food Commodities in Azerbaijan

1. State Statistical Committeeof the Republic of Azerbaijan Balances of main agricultural products and food commodities Dr Alisa Zeynalli, Head of Food Security and Balances Department of the State Statistical Committee December 5-9, 2011 Rome, Italy

2. Legal basis of the FBS in Azerbaijan • According to Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan on «foodstuff » accepted in 1999, one of the main tasks of the government on provision of the population food security is to develop balances of produced and used foodstuff as well as to forecast food supply of the population • Order of the Cabinet of Ministers #181, dated on November 20, 2009, on “Approval of Rules of compilation of food balances”: • article 2 determines list of commodities, which balances are necessary to be compiled; • article 3.3 SSC is responsible for compilation of FBS; • article 4.3 SSC has to submit preliminary balances for the previous year to the Ministry of Economy Development (MoED) until January 30, and revised balances by April 30; • article 4.4 MoED submits projected balances for coming years to the Cabinet of Ministers by May 15.

3. Food Security and Balances Department of SSC • Was established on the base of Food Security Information System department initiated by EC Food Security Programme and functioned during 2000-2008; • Department responsible for elaboration and improvement of methodology; collection information necessary for compilation of FBS; compilation of FBS; statistical analyses of FBS, publication and dissemination

4. General Structure of FBS Supply: 1. Stocks at the beginning of year 2. Production 3. Import 4.Total (1+2+3) = Use: 5. Seed 6. Feed • Consumption (food) of population (except cereals and flour). Cereals and flour exclude volume used by processing industry as raw materials (7=4-5-6-8-9-10-11) 8. Used non-food purposes 9. Export 10.Losses 11. Stocks at the end of year 12. Total use, losses and stocks (5+6+7+8+9+10+11)

5. FBSs groups • Crop products; • Livestock products; • Derived products (food industry)

6. Crop products (14): • Cereals total (without rice): • wheat; • barley; • maize; • oat; • other cereals (without rice); • Leguminous (total); • Potatoes; • Vegetables(all kind): • onion; • other vegetables (total); • Watermelons; • Fruits and berries(total); • Grape

7. Livestock products (8): • Meat and meat products (all kinds): • cattle meat; • mutton and goat’s meat; • pork; • poultry; • Milk and milk products; • Eggs; • Fish and fish products.

8. Derived products (food industry (27): • Rice; • Flour and products from flour; • Groats; • Bread and products; • Pies and sweets; • Cracker, cookies and confectionery products for long storage; • sugary - floury confectionery products; • macaroni; • salt; • Vegetable oil; • Animal origin fats; • Margarine; • Fruit and vegetable juices; • Canned fruits and vegetables;

9. Derived products (food industry (27): • Milk and cream with 1-6% of fat content; • Milk and cream more than 6% of fat content; • Butter; • All kind of chees; • Kefir, Caucasian milk, yoghurt and other products; • Raw material for production of sugar; • Sugar and sugar products; • Tea; • Unsweetened mineral and aerated waters • Sweetened mineral and aerated waters.

10. Main documents of international organisations used for compilation of balances : • Product classification (СРА); • PRODCOM; • Harmonized classification of foreign trade; • Classification of economic activities (NACE); • Documents of 10th International workshop on SUA and FBS organized by the Statistics Georgia and FAO, December 4-8, 2000, Tbilisi; • Coefficients recommended by FAO for conversion processed products to raw materials; • Conversional factors recommended by FAO for calculation of per capita daily consumption of calori/protein/fat by products.

11. Source of information : • Current statistics • Administrative data • Special surveys

12. Current statistics: • Agriculture statistics: production of agriculture products for food; sown area • Industry statistics: production of food products and their stocks at the end of year • Trade statistics: import and export • Household Budget Survey (HBS):annual per capita consumption; structure of daily per capita consumption (quantity of calorie, protein, fat and carbohydrate • Population statistics:Annual average number of population

13. Administrative data: • From the state bodies responsible for the control on the quality of products about confiscated quantities: • Sanitary service of the Ministry of Health; • From the service of the MoED responsible for the control of consumer market • From the service of the MoA responsible for the control of the quality of agricultural products • From the State Committee on Standardization, Metrology and Patent • Ministry of Transport: on the quantity of salt used fro cleaning frozen roads and stocks • Ministry of Emergency: on food stocks in storage and losses • MoA: on non-declared export and import of products for own consumption, registered by Phyto-sanitary and Veterinary Services

14. Special surveys • Questionnaire #1 balance (processing) – volume of used raw materials in processing enterprises, their turnover, losses and stocks, as well as losses of final products. 100% coverage. Number of units 1373 (662 legal and 711 physical) • Questionnaire #2 balance (trade) – sample survey for collection data on losses and stocks of food products. Coverage: • Wholesale traders:1113 units out of 8510 (13,1%), of which 870 legal &243 physical; • Retail sale traders: 1447 units out of 10355 in total (14%), 357 legal and 1090 physical • Markets and fairs: 10 traders in each of 89 markets and fairs , totally 890 traders • Catering: 1191 units out of 11912 in general (10%). 65 legal and 1126 physical • Wedding palaces: total coverage – 250 units

15. Special surveys 3. Questionnaire #3 balance (households): 9156 hhs from the 1831100 in general (0.5%) 4. Questionnaire #4 balance (storage): 150 units 5. Questionnaire #5 balance (agriculture) 8061 units out of from 1208737 in general (in accordance to the agricultural census from 2005) – 0.7%. 2027 of which are legal and 6034 physical units 6. Questionnaire #6 balance (communal services):150 units – 100% coverage 7. Questionnaire #6 balance (sugar):41 units – 100% coverage (8 legal & 33 physical units) Total number of respondents : 23822 units, 3989 legal and 19833 physical units

16. Various elements of balances include: • Stocks and losses– corresponding information of agricultural producers, processing enterprises. Storages, wholesale and retail traders, HHs • Losses also includesconfiscated quantities, which are not safe to eat

17. Special calculation • Calculation of consumption of bread, bakery products, rice, groats – data on consumption for food collected from corresponding balances and recalculated to flour and grains multiplying to corresponding coefficients • Calculation of consumption of sugar and products with sugar (recalculated to sugar) • Self-sufficiency • Dependency on import • Per capita consumption: per year and per day • Calorie, protein and fat contents of daily consumption • All balances and calculations for calendar year

18. Comparative table of qualitative indicators for Azerbaijan, 2007

19. Time series of food consumption qualitative indicators in accordance to FBS

20. Thank you for attention!