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

Livestock operations. By species. Counties and Aran 2017
Operations
Bovine Ovine Caprine Swine Total
Alt Camp 6 40 55 53 154
Alt Empordà 292 229 131 299 951
Alt Penedès 20 47 49 11 127
Alt Urgell 353 125 109 31 618
Alta Ribagorça 76 51 54 0 181
Anoia 31 49 54 104 238
Aran 82 136 63 0 281
Bages 223 113 116 298 750
Baix Camp 11 43 52 44 150
Baix Ebre 83 116 138 53 390
Baix Empordà 86 141 111 159 497
Baix Llobregat 10 73 92 8 183
Baix Penedès 4 21 25 25 75
Barcelonès 0 5 0 0 5
Berguedà 380 152 164 249 945
Cerdanya 297 69 45 6 417
Conca de Barberà 19 24 23 35 101
Garraf 0 17 27 0 44
Garrigues 172 46 35 194 447
Garrotxa 350 218 128 93 789
Gironès 130 113 48 116 407
Maresme 23 36 42 7 108
Moianès 81 38 37 69 225
Montsià 30 60 64 103 257
Noguera 324 92 79 688 1,183
Osona 773 263 172 785 1,993
Pallars Jussà 132 97 76 100 405
Pallars Sobirà 202 87 73 0 362
Pla d'Urgell 118 20 14 286 438
Pla de l'Estany 126 91 34 162 413
Priorat 9 9 24 14 56
Ribera d'Ebre 10 54 61 41 166
Ripollès 514 141 93 63 811
Segarra 119 35 38 279 471
Segrià 704 113 68 792 1,677
Selva 110 134 85 125 454
Solsonès 185 99 88 183 555
Tarragonès 0 28 28 9 65
Terra Alta 10 45 50 51 156
Urgell 133 31 28 309 501
Vallès Occidental 36 51 63 25 175
Vallès Oriental 154 163 147 100 564
Catalonia 6,418 3,515 2,883 5,969 18,785
Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food.
Note: The official brand is considered a livestock operation.
Livestock operations. By species. Counties and Aran 2017
Places
Bovine Ovine Caprine Swine Total
Alt Camp 3,092 8,409 3,340 8,409 23,250
Alt Empordà 54,169 66,791 8,147 66,791 195,898
Alt Penedès 6,823 45,597 2,166 45,597 100,183
Alt Urgell 35,062 40,491 8,341 40,491 124,385
Alta Ribagorça 12,109 34,731 3,736 34,731 85,307
Anoia 7,817 16,880 3,019 16,880 44,596
Aran 1,959 10,541 3,058 10,541 26,099
Bages 38,821 36,627 8,690 36,627 120,765
Baix Camp 2,160 21,060 7,013 21,060 51,293
Baix Ebre 8,161 23,497 16,889 23,497 72,044
Baix Empordà 13,550 46,753 7,587 46,753 114,643
Baix Llobregat 1,004 12,589 5,174 12,589 31,356
Baix Penedès 659 14,581 2,627 14,581 32,448
Barcelonès 0 456 0 456 912
Berguedà 43,686 50,606 7,216 50,606 152,114
Cerdanya 24,671 12,407 1,383 12,407 50,868
Conca de Barberà 4,935 5,201 2,804 5,201 18,141
Garraf 0 6,149 1,535 6,149 13,833
Garrigues 35,955 30,261 5,575 30,261 102,052
Garrotxa 31,901 30,168 6,078 30,168 98,315
Gironès 22,085 23,436 2,069 23,436 71,026
Maresme 3,322 5,970 3,187 5,970 18,449
Moianès 11,336 12,650 4,064 12,650 40,700
Montsià 2,138 15,733 5,199 15,733 38,803
Noguera 83,007 67,002 10,324 67,002 227,335
Osona 104,848 90,763 13,506 90,763 299,880
Pallars Jussà 21,083 77,221 7,419 77,221 182,944
Pallars Sobirà 21,449 45,217 7,160 45,217 119,043
Pla d'Urgell 33,135 19,859 2,930 19,859 75,783
Pla de l'Estany 22,150 21,022 2,092 21,022 66,286
Priorat 1,082 2,963 1,626 2,963 8,634
Ribera d'Ebre 2,157 16,497 9,592 16,497 44,743
Ripollès 37,483 25,067 3,650 25,067 91,267
Segarra 24,920 13,750 2,158 13,750 54,578
Segrià 192,926 75,886 6,421 75,886 351,119
Selva 16,796 34,156 2,581 34,156 87,689
Solsonès 24,059 50,138 6,475 50,138 130,810
Tarragonès 0 4,738 586 4,738 10,062
Terra Alta 1,157 16,268 2,797 16,268 36,490
Urgell 28,032 25,146 2,950 25,146 81,274
Vallès Occidental 6,163 19,026 2,724 19,026 46,939
Vallès Oriental 31,173 43,178 9,139 43,178 126,668
Catalonia 1,017,035 1,219,481 213,027 1,219,481 3,669,024
Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food.
Note: The official brand is considered a livestock operation.

Last update: October 25, 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 "..".