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

Livestock operations. By species. Counties and Aran Catalonia
Operations
Bovine Ovine Caprine Swine Total
2022 5,075 3,011 2,442 5,788 16,316
2021 6,594 3,862 3,068 5,971 19,495
2020 6,423 3,568 2,880 5,924 18,795
2019 6,410 3,521 2,847 5,930 18,708
2018 6,445 3,539 2,864 5,950 18,798
2017 6,418 3,515 2,883 5,969 18,785
Source:
2017-2019: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food.
2020: Ministry of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda.
2021-2022: Ministry of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda.
Note: The official brand is considered a livestock operation.
Livestock operations. By species. Counties and Aran Catalonia
Places
Bovine Ovine Caprine Swine Total
2022 1,052,542 1,055,885 187,335 9,772,474 12,068,236
2021 1,055,807 1,063,150 191,267 9,790,123 12,100,347
2020 1,053,023 1,107,690 194,774 9,572,904 11,928,391
2019 1,050,659 1,138,216 200,785 9,414,802 11,804,462
2018 1,040,289 1,216,022 209,158 9,163,352 11,628,821
2017 1,017,035 1,219,481 213,027 1,219,481 3,669,024
Source:
2017-2019: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food.
2020: Ministry of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda.
2021-2022: Ministry of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda.
Note: The official brand is considered a livestock operation.

Last update: October 30, 2023.

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 "..".