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

Livestock operations. By species. Counties and Aran, and provinces 2016
Operations
Bovine Ovine Caprine Swine Total
Alt Camp 5 39 51 58 153
Alt Empordà 303 232 138 298 971
Alt Penedès 20 43 43 11 117
Alt Urgell 350 124 107 31 612
Alta Ribagorça 72 51 50 0 173
Anoia 27 52 63 101 243
Aran 82 134 57 0 273
Bages 229 118 122 301 770
Baix Camp 11 42 54 43 150
Baix Ebre 79 138 161 49 427
Baix Empordà 88 134 107 161 490
Baix Llobregat 17 84 101 10 212
Baix Penedès 0 21 27 23 71
Barcelonès 0 7 4 4 15
Berguedà 400 152 160 247 959
Cerdanya 303 73 45 5 426
Conca de Barberà 19 23 20 35 97
Garraf 0 17 29 0 46
Garrigues 171 45 33 191 440
Garrotxa 348 226 133 95 802
Gironès 128 111 48 111 398
Maresme 23 41 46 7 117
Moianès 79 36 37 67 219
Montsià 30 63 71 104 268
Noguera 330 91 73 684 1,178
Osona 775 261 172 794 2,002
Pallars Jussà 135 97 81 99 412
Pallars Sobirà 200 91 74 0 365
Pla d'Urgell 118 21 15 284 438
Pla de l'Estany 131 92 36 161 420
Priorat 9 8 23 14 54
Ribera d'Ebre 7 52 58 41 158
Ripollès 513 137 93 64 807
Segarra 115 37 32 281 465
Segrià 712 118 68 788 1,686
Selva 114 139 88 130 471
Solsonès 185 94 88 176 543
Tarragonès 0 32 29 9 70
Terra Alta 10 47 48 50 155
Urgell 133 30 27 308 498
Vallès Occidental 36 52 62 27 177
Vallès Oriental 169 170 144 105 588
Catalonia 6,476 3,575 2,918 5,967 18,936
Barcelona 1,747 1,028 977 1,671 5,423
Girona 1,798 1,109 660 1,023 4,590
Lleida 2,762 973 739 2,851 7,325
Tarragona 179 465 542 427 1,613
Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food.
Note: The official brand is considered a livestock operation.
Livestock operations. By species. Counties and Aran,and provinces 2016
Places
Bovine Ovine Caprine Swine Total
Alt Camp 3,090 8,779 3,874 73,663 89,406
Alt Empordà 55,393 68,944 8,376 440,642 573,355
Alt Penedès 6,823 45,496 2,069 6,930 61,318
Alt Urgell 33,587 42,366 33,892 8,111 117,956
Alta Ribagorça 11,643 38,108 3,647 0 53,398
Anoia 7,199 19,214 4,678 145,899 176,990
Aran 1,922 10,436 2,833 0 15,191
Bages 39,165 40,814 8,690 389,490 478,159
Baix Camp 2,160 21,549 6,943 64,483 95,135
Baix Ebre 8,249 29,371 18,739 82,818 139,177
Baix Empordà 13,915 47,657 7,107 170,788 239,467
Baix Llobregat 1,124 14,096 5,729 1,710 22,659
Baix Penedès 0 14,907 2,709 30,342 47,958
Barcelonès 0 474 74 100 648
Berguedà 43,077 52,917 7,662 305,124 408,780
Cerdanya 24,567 12,758 1,452 3,527 42,304
Conca de Barberà 4,735 4,993 2,629 66,486 78,843
Garraf 0 6,591 1,568 0 8,159
Garrigues 35,590 31,616 5,576 415,778 488,560
Garrotxa 31,709 33,278 6,469 106,237 177,693
Gironès 21,950 23,532 2,042 130,647 178,171
Maresme 3,211 6,694 3,836 10,793 24,534
Moianès 10,897 14,063 4,166 84,667 113,793
Montsià 2,022 15,660 5,654 182,543 205,879
Noguera 77,660 69,823 10,708 1,242,504 1,400,695
Osona 103,112 91,218 12,368 1,057,292 1,263,990
Pallars Jussà 20,771 77,913 8,575 147,774 255,033
Pallars Sobirà 21,540 50,782 7,227 0 79,549
Pla d'Urgell 32,059 20,274 2,553 456,775 511,661
Pla de l'Estany 22,100 22,170 2,174 185,581 232,025
Priorat 1,076 2,943 1,606 9,887 15,512
Ribera d'Ebre 1,160 16,258 8,847 54,089 80,354
Ripollès 37,097 25,197 3,667 20,095 86,056
Segarra 23,337 14,225 2,567 367,650 407,779
Segrià 184,534 78,277 5,898 1,385,795 1,654,504
Selva 16,656 34,532 3,225 93,335 147,748
Solsonès 24,056 48,755 5,269 238,524 316,604
Tarragonès 0 5,013 760 10,875 16,648
Terra Alta 1,157 15,039 2,847 65,139 84,182
Urgell 27,800 25,482 2,919 504,371 560,572
Vallès Occidental 6,250 18,288 2,846 33,972 61,356
Vallès Oriental 32,051 47,791 7,833 96,263 183,938
Catalonia 994,444 1,268,293 242,303 8,690,699 11,195,739
Barcelona 250,468 355,108 60,681 2,118,630 2,784,887
Girona 214,122 263,198 34,454 1,160,935 1,672,709
Lleida 506,405 515,475 66,779 4,799,661 5,888,320
Tarragona 25,912 134,512 54,370 642,325 857,357
Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food.
Note: Data corresponds to the capacity (places) of operations, not to head of livestock.

Last update: May 15, 2018.

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 "..".