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Used agricultural area (UAA). By type of tenancy. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Used agricultural area (UAA). By type of tenancy. Counties, areas and provinces 2009
Owned Leased Crop share and others Total
Alt Camp 12,383 3,443 4,903 20,728
Alt Empordà 21,794 21,750 3,921 47,465
Alt Penedès 14,681 3,945 5,578 24,204
Alt Urgell 12,378 12,078 2,017 26,473
Alta Ribagorça 6,994 3,116 1,308 11,418
Anoia 16,764 8,454 5,508 30,726
Bages 18,707 11,602 6,186 36,495
Baix Camp 11,933 1,990 1,717 15,640
Baix Ebre 27,704 9,331 4,096 41,130
Baix Empordà 8,928 10,498 1,245 20,672
Baix Llobregat 1,854 1,382 386 3,622
Baix Penedès 3,613 671 2,085 6,369
Barcelonès 663 93 29 785
Berguedà 9,953 14,220 2,099 26,272
Cerdanya 16,688 10,192 1,716 28,596
Conca de Barberà 13,756 7,067 6,136 26,959
Garraf 1,149 231 892 2,271
Garrigues 27,347 9,597 3,983 40,927
Garrotxa 5,137 8,741 1,011 14,889
Gironès 6,420 7,972 746 15,138
Maresme 1,864 1,698 264 3,826
Montsià 24,332 9,694 4,381 38,406
Noguera 45,976 24,179 14,900 85,056
Osona 16,716 22,928 2,416 42,060
Pallars Jussà 28,724 19,364 4,050 52,138
Pallars Sobirà 45,230 11,988 1,748 58,965
Pla d'Urgell 14,059 8,865 3,669 26,594
Pla de l'Estany 3,979 5,100 757 9,837
Priorat 6,628 2,147 689 9,463
Ribera d'Ebre 15,879 3,057 1,356 20,291
Ripollès 6,701 11,088 6,131 23,920
Segarra 26,904 9,117 7,647 43,668
Segrià 61,026 23,437 9,193 93,656
Selva 5,705 5,813 675 12,193
Solsonès 17,818 11,936 5,128 34,882
Tarragonès 6,699 2,039 1,297 10,035
Terra Alta 18,107 6,426 1,674 26,207
Urgell 26,844 8,802 10,402 46,047
Val d'Aran 39,451 7,814 -847 48,112
Vallès Occidental 1,941 3,223 930 6,094
Vallès Oriental 6,209 7,898 1,196 15,303
Catalonia 659,635 352,985 134,913 1,147,532
Metropolità 12,531 14,294 2,804 29,629
Comarques Gironines 58,664 70,962 14,486 144,113
Camp de Tarragona 51,398 16,686 14,742 82,826
Terres de l'Ebre 86,021 28,507 11,507 126,035
Ponent 202,156 83,997 49,794 335,947
Comarques Centrals 63,194 60,686 15,829 139,709
Alt Pirineu i Aran 149,465 64,551 11,687 225,703
Penedès 36,207 13,301 14,063 63,571
Barcelona 89,521 73,990 25,511 189,022
Girona 70,667 78,066 15,459 164,192
Lleida 358,415 155,065 65,609 579,088
Tarragona 141,032 45,864 28,334 215,230
Units: Hectares.
Source: Idescat, based on the Agricultural census of INE.

Last update: February 22, 2012.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Type of tenancy
Legal manner in which the title-holder acts in order to agriculturally exploit the land. The most usual forms are: ownership, leasing, crop share and others.
Type of tenancy. Others
Includes land used by free transfer, in trust, in litigation, common land, etc.
Type of tenancy. Lease
The title-holder enjoys profits from the land through payment of a lease or rent, be that in money, kind or both methods, regardless of the results of the operation.
Type of tenancy. Crop share
Land owned by third parties that is temporarily ceded to the title holder through payment of a percentage of the product obtained or its monetary equivalent.
Type of tenancy. Ownership
The title-holder has ownership rights, either written or not; ownership is also considered when the land has been peacefully exploited by the title-holder without interruption for a minimum of thirty years, without payment of rent. Includes usufruct land.
Used agricultural area (UAA)
Includes surfaces of cultivated land and permanent pasture.

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

Methodological aspects

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 "..".