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

Livestock operations. By species. Counties, areas and provinces 2011
Operations
Bovine Ovine Caprine Swine Total
Alt Camp 6 33 59 61 159
Alt Empordà 302 209 142 310 963
Alt Penedès 16 40 43 15 114
Alt Urgell 343 111 92 32 578
Alta Ribagorça 73 44 44 1 162
Anoia 24 51 61 97 233
Bages 292 112 122 339 865
Baix Camp 12 45 51 42 150
Baix Ebre 53 148 168 49 418
Baix Empordà 109 131 93 194 527
Baix Llobregat 16 77 83 10 186
Baix Penedès 4 21 23 23 71
Barcelonès 1 4 3 1 9
Berguedà 423 142 161 258 984
Cerdanya 301 67 34 8 410
Conca de Barberà 19 23 21 35 98
Garraf 0 11 21 0 32
Garrigues 186 35 31 205 457
Garrotxa 349 196 129 98 772
Gironès 157 91 53 114 415
Maresme 40 34 29 8 111
Montsià 35 67 64 106 272
Noguera 318 100 75 680 1,173
Osona 813 231 151 825 2,020
Pallars Jussà 124 89 67 107 387
Pallars Sobirà 200 86 71 6 363
Pla d'Urgell 131 26 15 300 472
Pla de l'Estany 131 68 40 174 413
Priorat 9 10 16 11 46
Ribera d'Ebre 4 62 73 41 180
Ripollès 499 116 93 81 789
Segarra 118 33 24 282 457
Segrià 800 115 58 861 1,834
Selva 153 135 95 131 514
Solsonès 185 97 101 183 566
Tarragonès 4 28 28 10 70
Terra Alta 7 53 51 44 155
Urgell 137 30 23 320 510
Val d'Aran 84 122 49 0 255
Vallès Occidental 41 50 56 28 175
Vallès Oriental 253 171 147 120 691
Catalonia 6,772 3,314 2,760 6,210 19,056
Metropolità 351 336 318 167 1,172
Comarques Gironines 1,700 946 645 1,102 4,393
Camp de Tarragona 50 139 175 159 523
Terres de l'Ebre 99 330 356 240 1,025
Ponent 1,690 339 226 2,648 4,903
Comarques Centrals 1,713 582 535 1,605 4,435
Alt Pirineu i Aran 1,125 519 357 154 2,155
Penedès 44 123 148 135 450
Barcelona 1,942 943 889 1,745 5,519
Girona 1,719 955 636 1,214 4,524
Lleida 3,014 961 701 3,030 7,706
Tarragona 150 481 525 444 1,600
Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Food and Natural Environment.
Notes:
The official brand is considered a livestock operation.
Law 23/2010, of July 22, on the creation of the area of Penedès, divides Catalonia into eight territorial planning areas. This change implies that the data for the Metropolitan Area, Central Counties and Camp de Tarragona are not directly comparable with previous years.
Livestock operations. By species. Counties, areas and provinces 2011
Places
Bovine Ovine Caprine Swine Total
Alt Camp 3,074 11,610 4,435 70,424 89,543
Alt Empordà 58,031 84,058 10,941 406,489 559,519
Alt Penedès 6,585 50,333 2,377 8,552 67,847
Alt Urgell 30,840 40,675 6,587 37,625 115,727
Alta Ribagorça 12,232 44,543 3,178 600 60,553
Anoia 7,364 23,374 2,774 129,296 162,808
Bages 44,891 55,399 9,564 373,515 483,369
Baix Camp 2,402 21,495 9,994 63,857 97,748
Baix Ebre 7,974 41,705 21,295 87,192 158,166
Baix Empordà 15,897 50,571 5,391 154,318 226,177
Baix Llobregat 2,325 30,883 7,291 2,202 42,701
Baix Penedès 1,703 14,764 1,717 31,552 49,736
Barcelonès 50 444 65 170 729
Berguedà 45,948 55,274 11,740 272,735 385,697
Cerdanya 24,262 13,018 1,810 4,639 43,729
Conca de Barberà 4,655 6,940 4,709 56,862 73,166
Garraf 0 9,559 1,753 0 11,312
Garrigues 35,199 30,617 5,196 375,548 446,560
Garrotxa 34,812 38,209 6,513 87,230 166,764
Gironès 23,075 23,538 3,060 120,938 170,611
Maresme 5,265 9,570 2,329 9,576 26,740
Montsià 2,523 18,925 4,078 176,394 201,920
Noguera 70,628 87,126 9,742 1,048,965 1,216,461
Osona 111,579 101,271 12,057 935,873 1,160,780
Pallars Jussà 19,298 78,134 6,687 144,341 248,460
Pallars Sobirà 20,030 46,844 5,947 1,556 74,377
Pla d'Urgell 32,423 26,417 2,887 409,820 471,547
Pla de l'Estany 22,169 23,010 2,269 168,282 215,730
Priorat 1,611 3,145 2,690 9,478 16,924
Ribera d'Ebre 217 20,794 9,495 52,473 82,979
Ripollès 36,923 25,578 3,935 22,440 88,876
Segarra 21,269 15,435 2,677 328,338 367,719
Segrià 176,632 84,426 3,660 1,307,135 1,571,853
Selva 18,666 43,227 4,138 76,759 142,790
Solsonès 26,119 49,640 7,039 210,083 292,881
Tarragonès 1,422 6,442 1,238 11,225 20,327
Terra Alta 1,055 17,448 3,185 57,511 79,199
Urgell 27,302 24,198 2,803 427,601 481,904
Val d'Aran 1,875 9,601 2,690 0 14,166
Vallès Occidental 8,035 27,606 3,540 36,191 75,372
Vallès Oriental 49,080 58,150 8,616 113,621 229,467
Catalonia 1,015,440 1,423,996 222,092 7,831,406 10,492,934
Metropolità 64,755 126,653 21,841 161,760 375,009
Comarques Gironines 209,573 288,191 36,247 1,036,456 1,570,467
Camp de Tarragona 13,164 49,632 23,066 211,846 297,708
Terres de l'Ebre 11,769 98,872 38,053 373,570 522,264
Ponent 363,453 268,219 26,965 3,897,407 4,556,044
Comarques Centrals 228,537 261,584 40,400 1,792,206 2,322,727
Alt Pirineu i Aran 108,537 232,815 26,899 188,761 557,012
Penedès 15,652 98,030 8,621 169,400 291,703
Barcelona 285,260 439,082 69,566 1,872,936 2,666,844
Girona 212,178 293,079 37,961 1,053,642 1,596,860
Lleida 497,452 581,305 62,927 4,251,005 5,392,689
Tarragona 26,862 169,283 65,262 626,537 887,944
Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Food and Natural Environment.
Notes:
Data corresponds to the capacity (places) of operations, not to head of livestock.
Law 23/2010, of July 22, on the creation of the area of Penedès, divides Catalonia into eight territorial planning areas. This change implies that the data for the Metropolitan Area, Central Counties and Camp de Tarragona are not directly comparable with previous years.

Last update: October 9, 2013.

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 "..".