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Used agricultural area (UAA). By type of tenancy. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Used agricultural area (UAA). By type of tenancy. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces Vallès Oriental
Owned Leased Other tenure systems Communal land Total
2020 2,633 7,182 138 65 10,017
Units: Hectares.
Source: Idescat, based on the Agricultural census of INE.
Notes:
Other tenure regimes: share-cropping, trusts.
Communal lands: ceded in lots exclusively for farming.

Last update: November 8, 2022.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Type of tenancy
Legal manner in which the title-holder acts in order to agriculturally exploit the land. The most usual forms are: ownership, leasing, crop share and others.
Type of tenancy. Others
Includes land used by free transfer, in trust, in litigation, common land, etc.
Type of tenancy. Lease
The title-holder enjoys profits from the land through payment of a lease or rent, be that in money, kind or both methods, regardless of the results of the operation.
Type of tenancy. Crop share
Land owned by third parties that is temporarily ceded to the title holder through payment of a percentage of the product obtained or its monetary equivalent.
Type of tenancy. Ownership
The title-holder has ownership rights, either written or not; ownership is also considered when the land has been peacefully exploited by the title-holder without interruption for a minimum of thirty years, without payment of rent. Includes usufruct land.
Used agricultural area (UAA)
Includes surfaces of cultivated land and permanent pasture.

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 "..".