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 Agricultural holdings with temporary crops (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Agricultural holdings with temporary crops (No.) by Geographic localization (NUTS - 2001), Type (temporary crops), Importance and Economic size classes (ESU); Irregular
Regularity Irregular
Source Statistics Portugal, Agricultural holding structure survey
First available period 1989
Last available period 2007
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic localization (NUTS - 2001)
  • Type (temporary crops)
  • Importance
  • Economic size classes (ESU)
Concepts
  • TEMPORARY CROPS:  Crops with a growth cycle that does not exceed 1 year (annual plants) as well as those that are resown at intervals of no greater than 5 years (strawberry, asparagus, temporary grassland, etc.).
  • 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).
  • ECONOMIC DIMENSION (ED):  The total gross margin of a holding, expressed in European size units (ESUs), which is the sum of the different gross margins of the activities on the holding.
  • 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 Data for 1989, 1999, 2009, based on census (Agricultural Census). Between these periods, biennial for odd years and with exception for 1991 and 2001, the information is based on sampling surveys (Farm structure survey).
Last update date 30/09/2009


information presented in 15/1/2025