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

Livestock operations. By species. Counties and Aran 2023
Operations
Bovine Ovine Caprine Swine Total
Alt Camp 4 37 46 50 137
Alt Empordà 204 188 96 295 783
Alt Penedès 16 42 38 8 104
Alt Urgell 243 94 80 33 450
Alta Ribagorça 46 36 44 1 127
Anoia 30 40 40 99 209
Aran 23 70 49 0 142
Bages 209 113 115 272 709
Baix Camp 8 53 69 42 172
Baix Ebre 50 106 119 51 326
Baix Empordà 57 125 92 140 414
Baix Llobregat 4 55 63 3 125
Baix Penedès 2 19 19 18 58
Barcelonès 0 4 3 0 7
Berguedà 277 112 126 237 752
Cerdanya 211 65 42 6 324
Conca de Barberà 15 23 25 34 97
Garraf 1 8 8 0 17
Garrigues 156 42 33 192 423
Garrotxa 225 216 109 94 644
Gironès 118 120 63 119 420
Lluçanès 73 35 28 96 232
Maresme 19 43 46 8 116
Moianès 71 33 31 68 203
Montsià 19 58 60 102 239
Noguera 312 65 56 692 1,125
Osona 518 206 132 634 1,490
Pallars Jussà 111 88 66 99 364
Pallars Sobirà 139 69 60 3 271
Pla d'Urgell 99 15 12 281 407
Pla de l'Estany 112 90 37 146 385
Priorat 3 12 21 8 44
Ribera d'Ebre 9 59 61 34 163
Ripollès 277 119 85 47 528
Segarra 115 25 35 283 458
Segrià 700 75 50 791 1,616
Selva 90 121 71 97 379
Solsonès 153 65 56 187 461
Tarragonès 4 18 26 9 57
Terra Alta 7 54 52 56 169
Urgell 130 21 19 305 475
Vallès Occidental 27 50 53 16 146
Vallès Oriental 117 124 116 80 437
Catalonia 5,004 3,013 2,452 5,736 16,205
Source: Departament d'Agricultura, Ramaderia, Pesca, Alimentació i Medi Natural. Effective livestock survey.
Note: The official brand is considered a livestock operation.
Livestock operations. By species. Counties and Aran 2023
Places
Bovine Ovine Caprine Swine Total
Alt Camp 3,488 8,783 2,257 71,309 85,837
Alt Empordà 53,805 45,487 6,408 496,628 602,328
Alt Penedès 5,302 40,877 1,477 6,343 53,999
Alt Urgell 37,103 37,736 6,848 47,358 129,045
Alta Ribagorça 7,889 32,629 3,369 600 44,487
Anoia 24 13,765 1,523 175,369 190,681
Aran 2,313 9,262 2,448 0 14,023
Bages 38,286 31,606 8,709 422,952 501,553
Baix Camp 2,815 53,554 7,845 74,329 138,543
Baix Ebre 5 11,832 7,118 93,960 112,915
Baix Empordà 13,874 37,321 9,183 180,775 241,153
Baix Llobregat 1,161 9,015 4,391 1,517 16,084
Baix Penedès 465 15,804 715 26,809 43,793
Barcelonès 0 42 41 0 83
Berguedà 44,657 40,528 6,205 335,405 426,795
Cerdanya 25,182 11,789 1,369 3,863 42,203
Conca de Barberà 4,392 5,533 1,707 70,585 82,217
Garraf 200 5,132 386 0 5,718
Garrigues 37,522 27,780 3,924 461,205 530,431
Garrotxa 30,506 27,736 4,797 113,211 176,250
Gironès 21,626 16,481 2,105 146,761 186,973
Lluçanès 16,858 16,599 1,490 161,221 196,168
Maresme 2,451 2,861 3,265 11,702 20,279
Moianès 10,733 10,644 3,745 89,357 114,479
Montsià 2,361 11,031 4,500 200,357 218,249
Noguera 91,632 51,330 7,726 1,450,087 1,600,775
Osona 91,473 51,068 9,609 948,623 1,100,773
Pallars Jussà 21,735 71,404 7,488 174,364 274,991
Pallars Sobirà 20,614 41,120 5,273 2,471 69,478
Pla d'Urgell 34,132 10,786 3,128 512,002 560,048
Pla de l'Estany 22,010 16,054 2,011 212,299 252,374
Priorat 550 2,873 1,285 5,839 10,547
Ribera d'Ebre 742 12,423 9,205 51,112 73,482
Ripollès 39,480 21,327 4,017 19,878 84,702
Segarra 27,645 12,902 3,302 450,409 494,258
Segrià 213,509 54,557 7,975 1,633,706 1,909,747
Selva 16,796 24,405 1,858 91,885 134,944
Solsonès 25,949 37,076 4,967 305,841 373,833
Tarragonès 1,680 2,417 364 13,259 17,720
Terra Alta 996 14,771 2,381 79,027 97,175
Urgell 30,607 14,449 2,616 585,812 633,484
Vallès Occidental 5,685 14,427 2,969 29,662 52,743
Vallès Oriental 26,356 29,247 7,337 94,122 157,062
Catalonia 1,034,609 1,006,463 179,336 9,852,014 12,072,422
Source: Departament d'Agricultura, Ramaderia, Pesca, Alimentació i Medi Natural. Effective livestock survey.
Note: The official brand is considered a livestock operation.

Last update: November 29, 2024.

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.