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Cultivated land. By type of crop Catalonia
2016 2013 2009 2007 2005 2003 1999 1997 1995
Herbaceous crops 523,896 507,866 511,149 512,609 505,225 512,987 515,159 569,410 564,823
Arable crops 502,042 487,256 480,242 485,095 471,595 483,004 484,497 539,352 521,821
Cereals 397,215 380,648 370,803 370,451 367,708 365,356 350,664 394,738 374,288
Fodder 84,263 86,934 90,387 93,124 82,330 94,560 99,699 110,546 106,387
Vegetables 6,181 6,064 6,499 7,484 8,205 8,169 10,148 13,156 12,692
Leguminous 2,025 1,933 1,903 2,288 3,891 3,911 2,203 1,910 3,580
Potatoes 806 758 950 940 854 798 1,415 2,203 2,179
Industrial 11,552 10,919 9,700 10,808 8,607 10,210 20,368 16,799 22,695
Fallow crops 20,821 19,451 29,309 25,805 32,301 28,784 28,675 28,287 41,266
Family orchards 78 77 248 316 339 259 273 385 411
Others 954 1,082 1,350 1,393 990 940 1,714 1,385 1,324
Woody crops 259,793 259,766 281,275 277,693 278,843 284,848 298,523 307,887 295,000
Fruit trees 93,785 92,892 100,376 112,864 117,766 120,122 121,658 134,993 133,588
Sweet fruits (1) 44,885 42,632 46,328 49,978 51,082 47,106 48,390 54,861 52,848
Dry fruits 48,586 49,290 53,353 62,694 66,496 72,820 73,111 79,992 80,619
Subtropical 314 970 695 192 188 196 157 140 121
Citrus 9,843 9,827 10,442 7,888 8,151 7,598 8,212 6,541 5,902
Olives 94,131 93,408 101,236 90,927 88,058 88,895 101,175 93,464 84,884
Vines 56,554 56,967 61,391 64,565 62,938 66,703 59,386 63,179 59,628
Nursery plants 1,150 1,822 2,043 1,198 1,603 1,354 1,145 694 1,022
Others 4,330 4,850 5,787 251 327 176 6,946 9,016 9,976
Total 783,689 767,632 792,424 790,302 784,068 797,835 813,682 877,297 859,823
Units: Hectares.
Source: Idescat, based on data from the Survey on Farm Structure of INE.
Notes:
(1) Includes berries.
The 1999 data has been adapted to the population researched in the Agricultural Census 2009 in order to assist with comparability.

Last update: February 28, 2018.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Cropland
Includes sowed land, plantations of annual and multi-annual species (herbaceous, woody, irrigated, rainfed crops, and also fallow crops)
Herbaceous crops
Composed of plants whose above ground part is of herbaceous consistency. Also includes areas occupied by fallow and family orchards.
Woody crops
Composed of plants whose above ground part is of woody consistency. These occupy the land for long periods of time and do not need to be replanted after each harvest. Excludes areas of forest and their plantations.
Fallow
Land that is not being used and has no crops for a certain period of time but has been treated in some way. It is included in the rainfed farming land group.
Family orchard
Surface of less than 5 areas (500 m²) where horticultural products are grown (including potatoes) that are mainly for own consumption. These are included in the group of irrigated crops.
Cultivated land
Land that is worked (whether using hoes, ploughs, rakes, harvesters, spreaders or extirpators) over the agricultural year for whatever purpose and the date when it was done. Crops from tilled land can be herbaceous or woody.

Methodological aspects

Agricultural statistics are generated within the framework of the EU programme on surveys on farm structure conducted by all EU members in order have up-to-date, comparable information on the member states, with the purpose of being used a basic tool for designing the Common Agricultural Policy. This programme establishes that an Agricultural Census shall be performed every ten years and sample-based surveys in the intervening years. For the cycle that starts with the Agricultural census 2009, two triennial surveys are established.

In these censuses, which are exhaustive, all the existing farms are researched, which from 2009, must comply with certain minimum criteria, while in the Surveys on Farm Structure the population studied complies with some less broad minimum criteria and the data is selected by sampling.

The introduction of these methodological changes with respect to previous editions means that the data is not directly comparable.

What is more, the census questionnaire also includes an additional sheet through which information of interest to the Catalan agricultural sector can be gathered.

Between 1989 and 2007, these statistical operations were conducted by Idescat with the support of the Department of Agriculture, Livestock, Fishing, Food and the Environment.

In 2009, the INE became the responsible body for the Agricultural census for Spain as a whole and in Catalonia it works in collaboration with Idescat and the Department of Agriculture, Livestock, Fishing, Food and the Environment, in accordance with the corresponding collaboration agreements.

The Survey on Farm Structure shows the biennial data series for intercensal periods up to 2007. The series will be triennial from 2013 onwards. From 2013 onwards, the thematic sections will include a section on Rural Development and another on Standard Production, which substitutes the processing of economic data on operations which was based on the gross margin until 2007.

Furthermore, in conjunction with DARP, Idescat has generated a variety of informative documents setting out the main results of the Agricultural Census and the Survey on Farm Structure, prior to 2009. The document devoted to the Agricultural Census contains a compilation of the main variables and compares them with the corresponding previous censuses, pointing out and commenting on the basic factors in their evolution in the intervening period.

The documents devoted to Survey on Farm Structure provide data on the main variables in this survey and compare them with the universe of reference of the corresponding Agricultural Census.

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 "..".