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Surface of organic farming. By type. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Another types of crop. Counties, areas and provinces 2009
With organic farming methods (1) GM For the production of renewable energies
Farms Ha Farms Ha Farms Ha
Alt Camp 26 259 0 0 1 10
Alt Empordà 26 840 69 664 2 3
Alt Penedès 97 1,786 0 0 0 0
Alt Urgell 8 197 2 9 0 0
Alta Ribagorça 26 1,220 0 0 0 0
Anoia 19 700 1 10 11 78
Bages 30 1,234 0 0 3 40
Baix Camp 21 101 0 0 0 0
Baix Ebre 26 695 0 0 1 1
Baix Empordà 14 123 53 477 2 9
Baix Llobregat 12 62 0 0 0 0
Baix Penedès 6 50 0 0 0 0
Barcelonès 3 107 0 0 0 0
Berguedà 14 491 0 0 2 23
Cerdanya 10 475 0 0 1 9
Conca de Barberà 24 439 0 0 0 0
Garraf 5 78 0 0 0 0
Garrigues 61 1,334 74 365 2 54
Garrotxa 26 467 0 0 4 40
Gironès 10 145 11 66 1 2
Maresme 22 120 2 6 0 0
Montsià 26 504 0 0 0 0
Noguera 16 386 200 1,425 3 22
Osona 9 263 1 3 1 8
Pallars Jussà 35 2,066 2 7 1 2
Pallars Sobirà 48 1,654 1 15 0 0
Pla d'Urgell 11 144 250 2,143 7 10
Pla de l'Estany 7 139 0 0 1 11
Priorat 71 493 0 0 0 0
Ribera d'Ebre 28 417 0 0 0 0
Ripollès 33 1,633 0 0 0 0
Segarra 10 269 1 10 10 110
Segrià 129 1,749 129 1,256 1 3
Selva 5 116 8 104 1 4
Solsonès 9 360 0 0 10 129
Tarragonès 8 45 1 1 0 0
Terra Alta 35 439 0 0 0 0
Urgell 18 406 46 411 0 0
Val d'Aran 4 101 4 20 0 0
Vallès Occidental 14 244 0 0 0 0
Vallès Oriental 37 513 1 0 1 0
Catalunya 1,039 22,864 856 6,991 66 565
Metropolità 88 1,047 3 6 1 0
Comarques Gironines 121 3,462 141 1,310 11 68
Camp de Tarragona 150 1,337 1 1 1 10
Terres de l'Ebre 115 2,056 0 0 1 1
Ponent 245 4,288 700 5,610 23 198
Comarques Centrals 62 2,347 1 3 16 199
Alt Pirineu i Aran 131 5,713 9 50 2 11
Penedès 127 2,615 1 10 11 78
Barcelona 262 5,598 5 19 18 148
Girona 127 3,756 141 1,310 12 77
Lleida 379 10,066 709 5,660 34 329
Tarragona 271 3,443 1 1 2 11
Source: Idescat, based on the Agricultural census of INE.
Note: (1) Farms that use ecologic agriculture methods on the soil.

Last update: February 22, 2012.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Ecological agriculture
System that respects the environment based on the use of natural resources without employing synthetic chemical products or genetically modified organisms (GMO. Ecological production must be registered with the corresponding governing body and subject to controls. Land used for ecological agriculture must be identified and separated from that which is not.
Energy crop
Mainly used for the production of thermal and electrical energy, and of biofuels (bethanol, biodiesel, biogas, synthetic hydrocarbons, etc.).
Genetically modified crop
Crop of organisms whose genetic material has been modified in a way that does not occur naturally either in annealing or in natural recombination. Crops of GMO must be publicly registered.

The Agricultural Census CENSAG methodology page contains the new definitions of the concepts used in the 2020 Agricultural Census.

Methodological aspects

The Agricultural Census is a large-scale statistical operation carried out every ten years. Its objective is to collect, compile and disseminate information that allows us to understand the structure of the agricultural sector at a given point in time.

The aspects covered by the census include farm size, tenure status, irrigation methods, land use, livestock, labour, rural development and storage facilities.

In Catalonia, the 1962, 1982, 2009 and 2020 agricultural censuses were carried out by Spain's National Statistics Institute (INE), while the 1989 and 1999 censuses were carried out by Idescat, with support from the then Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Food and Environment (now the Ministry of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda).

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 "..".