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 Agricultural holdings (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Agricultural holdings (No.) by Geographic localization (Agrarian area), Type of accounting and Utilised agricultural area classes; Irregular
Regularity Irregular
Source Statistics Portugal, Base agricultural statistics
First available period 1989
Last available period 2009
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic localization (Agrarian region)
  • Type of accounting
  • Utilised agricultural area classes
Concepts
  • UTILISED AGRICULTURAL AREA:  Area of the holding which includes arable land (cleared and under cover of forest stands), family vegetable garden, land under permanent crops and permanent pasture.
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
  • AGRICULTURAL HOLDING:  Technical-economic unit that uses common production factors such as labour, machinery, facilities, land, among others, fulfilling the following four conditions: 1) yield agricultural products or maintain, in good agricultural and environmental conditions, the lands that are no longer used for productive purposes; 2) reach or exceed a certain size (in area or number of animals); 3) be subject to a single management; 4) be located in a well-defined and identifiable area.
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 17/05/2011


information presented in 2/11/2025