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 Tillage area (ha) of agricultural holdings
Characteristic Description
Name Tillage area (ha) of agricultural holdings by Geographic localization (NUTS - 2001) and Tillage methods; Decennial
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Agriculture census - 2009
First available period 2009
Last available period 2009
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic localization (NUTS - 2001)
  • Tillage methods
Concepts
  • 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.
  • LAND PLOUGHING:  Motorised, towed or mounted machines passing over or between rows in the soil. This operation may be used to prepare the land for sowing, fighting infestations, or creating favourable conditions for installing and developing crops.
Measure unit (symbol) Hectare (ha)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 08/06/2011


information presented in 22/12/2024