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

Livestock operations. By species. Counties and Aran 2018
Operations
Bovine Ovine Caprine Swine Total
Alt Camp 5 39 56 51 151
Alt Empordà 293 238 133 300 964
Alt Penedès 20 47 47 11 125
Alt Urgell 356 126 111 32 625
Alta Ribagorça 77 51 54 0 182
Anoia 32 47 55 105 239
Aran 84 138 64 0 286
Bages 220 121 117 296 754
Baix Camp 11 44 55 42 152
Baix Ebre 76 106 119 51 352
Baix Empordà 77 140 110 158 485
Baix Llobregat 9 72 92 7 180
Baix Penedès 0 21 24 25 70
Barcelonès 0 5 0 0 5
Berguedà 393 147 160 246 946
Cerdanya 299 77 45 7 428
Conca de Barberà 20 23 24 37 104
Garraf 0 18 27 0 45
Garrigues 169 46 35 191 441
Garrotxa 356 222 126 96 800
Gironès 127 118 53 122 420
Maresme 24 40 41 7 112
Moianès 82 40 35 70 227
Montsià 31 56 62 102 251
Noguera 323 89 80 688 1,180
Osona 775 279 177 779 2,010
Pallars Jussà 138 102 78 100 418
Pallars Sobirà 207 89 71 0 367
Pla d'Urgell 112 18 13 282 425
Pla de l'Estany 119 92 37 155 403
Priorat 8 9 23 13 53
Ribera d'Ebre 10 54 65 35 164
Ripollès 516 130 89 60 795
Segarra 120 31 36 284 471
Segrià 709 118 71 789 1,687
Selva 118 140 90 128 476
Solsonès 191 96 84 191 562
Tarragonès 5 29 28 10 72
Terra Alta 11 47 50 47 155
Urgell 136 28 25 308 497
Vallès Occidental 37 56 68 26 187
Vallès Oriental 149 150 134 99 532
Catalonia 6,445 3,539 2,864 5,950 18,798
Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food.
Note: The official brand is considered a livestock operation.
Livestock operations. By species. Counties and Aran 2018
Places
Bovine Ovine Caprine Swine Total
Alt Camp 3,490 8,537 3,334 70,081 85,442
Alt Empordà 55,699 67,082 8,467 466,877 598,125
Alt Penedès 6,912 45,307 2,087 6,930 61,236
Alt Urgell 35,812 41,809 8,749 38,561 124,931
Alta Ribagorça 12,389 34,706 3,721 0 50,816
Anoia 7,458 16,393 3,472 157,915 185,238
Aran 1,959 10,627 2,953 0 15,539
Bages 39,239 37,174 8,660 396,959 482,032
Baix Camp 2,560 56,869 7,741 71,755 138,925
Baix Ebre 8,079 19,377 13,832 87,460 128,748
Baix Empordà 13,747 45,418 7,173 171,878 238,216
Baix Llobregat 974 11,979 4,954 1,524 19,431
Baix Penedès 0 14,581 1,109 29,945 45,635
Barcelonès 0 456 0 0 456
Berguedà 43,922 46,786 6,555 314,151 411,414
Cerdanya 25,899 13,165 1,302 3,544 43,910
Conca de Barberà 4,959 5,767 2,813 69,721 83,260
Garraf 0 6,132 1,500 0 7,632
Garrigues 36,714 28,984 5,575 431,015 502,288
Garrotxa 32,091 29,893 5,314 112,360 179,658
Gironès 22,095 22,930 2,420 133,763 181,208
Maresme 3,240 4,175 3,286 10,793 21,494
Moianès 11,562 11,560 3,414 88,783 115,319
Montsià 2,652 14,416 4,977 192,069 214,114
Noguera 85,131 62,567 10,187 1,320,504 1,478,389
Osona 106,491 90,873 12,950 1,086,094 1,296,408
Pallars Jussà 21,787 77,355 8,133 160,132 267,407
Pallars Sobirà 21,854 44,179 7,158 0 73,191
Pla d'Urgell 33,948 17,074 3,241 476,386 530,649
Pla de l'Estany 21,990 18,343 2,128 191,665 234,126
Priorat 1,076 2,860 1,616 9,884 15,436
Ribera d'Ebre 2,163 15,386 9,676 48,976 76,201
Ripollès 38,321 23,566 3,645 20,335 85,867
Segarra 25,877 12,930 2,044 409,798 450,649
Segrià 200,413 73,312 6,637 1,475,628 1,755,990
Selva 16,814 32,669 2,652 93,214 145,349
Solsonès 24,568 51,348 6,218 267,836 349,970
Tarragonès 1,207 4,612 568 9,945 16,332
Terra Alta 1,028 15,934 3,403 68,241 88,606
Urgell 29,651 20,133 2,901 537,192 589,877
Vallès Occidental 6,153 19,208 3,795 33,581 62,737
Vallès Oriental 30,365 39,550 8,798 97,857 176,570
Catalonia 1,040,289 1,216,022 209,158 9,163,352 11,628,821
Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food.
Note: The official brand is considered a livestock operation.

Last update: June 28, 2019.

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 "..".