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Livestock operations. By species. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Livestock operations. By species. Counties, areas and provinces 2008
Operations
Bovine Ovine Caprine Swine Total
Alt Camp 6 43 61 69 179
Alt Empordà 318 207 133 337 995
Alt Penedès 26 57 52 18 153
Alt Urgell 372 108 94 42 616
Alta Ribagorça 77 38 39 1 155
Anoia 23 56 60 101 240
Bages 314 127 138 381 960
Baix Camp 11 40 44 52 147
Baix Ebre 48 141 141 51 381
Baix Empordà 166 136 100 267 669
Baix Llobregat 15 63 64 9 151
Baix Penedès 5 23 22 22 72
Barcelonès 1 3 2 1 7
Berguedà 426 126 145 261 958
Cerdanya 316 55 21 9 401
Conca de Barberà 19 25 21 38 103
Garraf 2 13 23 1 39
Garrigues 195 36 32 211 474
Garrotxa 374 196 116 118 804
Gironès 177 88 58 167 490
Maresme 40 34 30 8 112
Montsià 30 65 58 111 264
Noguera 388 103 79 706 1,276
Osona 921 216 151 917 2,205
Pallars Jussà 126 88 67 110 391
Pallars Sobirà 194 76 69 15 354
Pla d'Urgell 144 29 17 317 507
Pla de l'Estany 160 72 38 195 465
Priorat 8 9 17 13 47
Ribera d'Ebre 4 62 65 48 179
Ripollès 487 116 99 99 801
Segarra 126 31 25 294 476
Segrià 833 139 61 898 1,931
Selva 153 116 82 135 486
Solsonès 188 95 103 184 570
Tarragonès 5 20 23 11 59
Terra Alta 8 55 48 46 157
Urgell 154 42 26 327 549
Val d'Aran 88 120 47 0 255
Vallès Occidental 58 60 66 38 222
Vallès Oriental 291 171 142 115 719
Catalonia 7,297 3,300 2,679 6,743 20,019
Metropolità 433 401 379 190 1,403
Comarques Gironines 1,835 931 626 1,318 4,710
Camp de Tarragona 54 160 188 205 607
Terres de l'Ebre 90 323 312 256 981
Ponent 1,840 380 240 2,753 5,213
Comarques Centrals 1,872 620 597 1,844 4,933
Alt Pirineu i Aran 1,173 485 337 177 2,172
Barcelona 2,117 926 873 1,850 5,766
Girona 1,983 958 632 1,320 4,893
Lleida 3,053 933 674 3,112 7,772
Tarragona 144 483 500 461 1,588
Source: Departament d'Agricultura, Alimentació i Acció Rural. Sistema d'Informació Ramadera (SIR). Extracció explotacions ACTIVES (desembre).
Note: The official brand is considered a livestock operation.
Livestock operations. By species. Counties, areas and provinces 2008
Places
Bovine Ovine Caprine Swine Total
Alt Camp 3,086 18,649 6,125 74,266 102,126
Alt Empordà 57,772 91,200 10,884 401,508 561,364
Alt Penedès 7,659 57,164 3,739 9,425 77,987
Alt Urgell 34,327 45,591 6,522 39,085 125,525
Alta Ribagorça 12,356 42,748 3,028 600 58,732
Anoia 9,123 28,503 4,438 120,521 162,585
Bages 48,325 64,659 14,689 376,253 503,926
Baix Camp 2,279 22,172 10,632 78,001 113,084
Baix Ebre 9,180 47,604 19,148 90,188 166,120
Baix Empordà 18,353 57,205 7,389 159,927 242,874
Baix Llobregat 2,326 32,409 6,694 3,464 44,893
Baix Penedès 862 16,159 2,378 32,160 51,559
Barcelonès 50 427 48 170 695
Berguedà 46,914 56,231 13,210 262,143 378,498
Cerdanya 24,648 12,362 1,716 9,896 48,622
Conca de Barberà 4,697 8,314 4,819 62,115 79,945
Garraf 695 13,646 2,341 557 17,239
Garrigues 35,544 30,658 5,309 350,351 421,862
Garrotxa 37,572 40,891 7,110 92,459 178,032
Gironès 24,634 24,088 4,469 122,133 175,324
Maresme 5,502 10,461 1,842 10,379 28,184
Montsià 2,405 19,865 4,903 174,060 201,233
Noguera 79,637 100,230 10,530 987,096 1,177,493
Osona 124,502 108,534 13,544 943,252 1,189,832
Pallars Jussà 19,528 80,789 6,908 145,291 252,516
Pallars Sobirà 19,386 49,599 7,634 1,987 78,606
Pla d'Urgell 34,129 30,982 3,254 407,266 475,631
Pla de l'Estany 24,043 22,895 2,525 166,604 216,067
Priorat 1,551 3,330 5,795 10,883 21,559
Ribera d'Ebre 217 20,783 9,892 54,351 85,243
Ripollès 35,926 24,027 4,276 22,165 86,394
Segarra 21,641 18,556 2,253 320,890 363,340
Segrià 178,493 105,951 4,020 1,255,068 1,543,532
Selva 18,242 45,077 4,319 73,682 141,320
Solsonès 26,560 49,384 6,607 202,645 285,196
Tarragonès 1,423 6,286 1,133 11,250 20,092
Terra Alta 1,160 17,629 2,801 55,197 76,787
Urgell 30,363 30,947 2,748 409,896 473,954
Val d'Aran 1,971 10,483 2,858 0 15,312
Vallès Occidental 10,532 34,109 4,045 42,007 90,693
Vallès Oriental 55,597 66,401 8,839 116,526 247,363
Catalonia 1,073,210 1,566,998 245,414 7,695,717 10,581,339
Metropolità 82,361 214,617 27,548 182,528 507,054
Comarques Gironines 216,542 305,383 40,972 1,038,478 1,601,375
Camp de Tarragona 13,898 74,910 30,882 268,675 388,365
Terres de l'Ebre 12,962 105,881 36,744 373,796 529,383
Ponent 379,807 317,324 28,114 3,730,567 4,455,812
Comarques Centrals 255,424 307,311 52,488 1,904,814 2,520,037
Alt Pirineu i Aran 112,216 241,572 28,666 196,859 579,313
Barcelona 311,225 472,544 73,429 1,884,697 2,741,895
Girona 229,662 312,482 41,721 1,044,779 1,628,644
Lleida 505,463 601,181 62,638 4,123,770 5,293,052
Tarragona 26,860 180,791 67,626 642,471 917,748
Source: Departament d'Agricultura, Alimentació i Acció Rural. Sistema d'Informació Ramadera (SIR). Extracció explotacions ACTIVES (desembre).
Note: Data corresponds to the capacity (places) of operations, not to head of livestock.

Last update: September 22, 2011.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Livestock operation
The entirety of the animals, equipment or buildings and other assets and rights that are commercialised by their owner for livestock production, primarily for market purposes, which is located on an estate or contiguous group of estates operated by a single owner. Livestock operation that is divided by pathways or other roads open to traffic is still considered as such.
Livestock
Includes animals on the operation, plus transhumant livestock and livestock as part of an integration or contract scheme i.e. that implies dependence on supplies and sales.

Methodological aspects

Livestock operations must be registered in the Register of Livestock Operations handled by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Food and the Environment. It is obligatory for all livestock operations located in Catalonia to be included in this administrative record. This register contains data related to the activity or activities carried out as part of the operation, as well as data on capacity categorised by species. Inclusion on the register is a prerequisite for the start of any livestock activity, for issuing documents related to the operation and for obtaining grants. The time reference is 1st March of the reference year.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Food and the Environment has promoted the SIR management program (Catalan Livestock Information System), which is a means of electronic communication between the various livestock sectors, allowing them to manage their operations directly, streamlining the procedures related to animal movement and identification, and the operation's registration. "This digital management means a substantial saving in time and journeys to the different branches of the Ministry, especially in those rural areas where operations are often harder to reach and isolated, while at the same time offering information on currently active operations.

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 "..".