Agricultural surface. By type. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Permanent pasture

Land that is permanently used (five years or more) for producing grass.

Agricultural surface

Constitutes the land used for agricultural, forestry or other purposes.

Agricultural surface, other land

This item includes wasteland, scrubland, land with esparto, untilled cultivable land and other land that is not directly used for plant production, but is needed by the operation (land occupied by constructions, stables, threshing floors, etc.). Also includes surfaces that are inapt for agricultural production, but that can be cultivated using means that are not normally used for operations (quarries, etc.).

Used agricultural area (UAA)

Includes surfaces of cultivated land and permanent pasture.

Forest surface

Area covered by trees or shrubs and not for agricultural purposes. Includes: woods (land populated by trees), and scrubland (maquis scrubland, garrigues, brolles, thickets and areas of transition between woods and scrubland), other vegetation (meadows, pastures, grasslands, wetland vegetation, wasteland and burned areas), plantations and other areas associated to operations, such as forest paths and fire-breaks.

Irrigated land

As well as rainwater, this land also receives water by means of a man-made system, whether temporary or continuous.

Rainfed land

Land that receives no water other than rainwater.

Cultivated land

Land that is worked (whether using hoes, ploughs, rakes, harvesters, spreaders or extirpators) over the agricultural year for whatever purpose and the date when it was done. Crops from tilled land can be herbaceous or woody.

The Agricultural Census CENSAG methodology page contains the new definitions of the concepts used in the 2020 Agricultural Census.

The Agricultural Census is a large-scale statistical operation carried out every ten years. Its objective is to collect, compile and disseminate information that allows us to understand the structure of the agricultural sector at a given point in time.

The aspects covered by the census include farm size, tenure status, irrigation methods, land use, livestock, labour, rural development and storage facilities.

In Catalonia, the 1962, 1982, 2009 and 2020 agricultural censuses were carried out by Spain's National Statistics Institute (INE), while the 1989 and 1999 censuses were carried out by Idescat, with support from the then Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Food and Environment (now the Ministry of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda).

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".