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

Livestock operations. By species. Counties, areas and provinces Catalonia
Operations
Bovine Ovine Caprine Swine Total
2010 6,825 3,340 2,751 6,433 19,349
2009 6,896 3,294 2,698 6,522 19,410
2008 7,297 3,300 2,679 6,743 20,019
Source:
2008: Departament d'Agricultura, Alimentació i Acció Rural. Sistema d'Informació Ramadera (SIR). Extracció explotacions ACTIVES (desembre).
2009-2010: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Food and Natural Environment.
Note: The official brand is considered a livestock operation.
Livestock operations. By species. Counties, areas and provinces Catalonia
Places
Bovine Ovine Caprine Swine Total
2010 1,021,752 1,482,749 235,716 7,804,120 10,544,337
2009 1,030,574 1,520,360 237,037 7,723,474 10,511,445
2008 1,073,210 1,566,998 245,414 7,695,717 10,581,339
Source:
2008: Departament d'Agricultura, Alimentació i Acció Rural. Sistema d'Informació Ramadera (SIR). Extracció explotacions ACTIVES (desembre).
2009-2010: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Food and Natural Environment.
Note: Data corresponds to the capacity (places) of operations, not to head of livestock.

Last update: July 6, 2012.

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 "..".