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Malta - Agricultural Census 2001 - Main Results
Number and area of holdings
Number of holdings Total area (ha)
Total 11 959 11 620
Agricultural land (utilized and unutilized) by size of holding
Area (ha)
Agricultural land, total 10 149
Under 0.5 ha 3 401
0.5 and under 1 ha 2 526
1 and under 2 ha 2 242
2 and under 5 ha 1 501
5 and under 10 ha 292
10 ha and over 187
Utilized agricultural land by size of holding
Number of holdings Area (ha)
Utilized agricultural land, total 11 959 9 657
Holdings without land 943 _
Under 0.5 ha 5 596 1 403
0.5 and under 1 ha 2 547 1 793
1 and under 2 ha 1 752 2 405
2 and under 5 ha 959 2 805
5 and under 10 ha 144 931
10 ha and over 18 320
Tenure of agricultural land
Area (ha)
Agricultural land 10 149
Owned 1 984
Rented 8 165
Land use
Area (ha)
Total land 11 620
Agricultural land 10 149
Irrigated 1 509
Unirrigated 8 640
Utilized 9 657
Arable land 7 471
Permanent crops 917
Fallow land 1 269
Unutilized 492
All other land 1 471
Employment in agriculture
Number of persons
Total 1 524
Male 1 405
Female 119
Total 12 589
Male 10 757
Female 1 832
Persons engaged full-time in
agriculture
Persons engaged part-time in
agriculture
Temporary crops
Holdings reporting Area under crops (ha)
Wheat 5 087 3 572
Barley 1 067 426
Potatoes 7 384 1 154
Onions 4 839 324
Eggplant 294 19
Beans, dry edible 4 875 358
Cauliflowers 1 243 195
Marrows 2 052 224
Pumpkin 728 50
Tomatoes 2 932 352
Melons _ 327
Lettuce 573 86
Cabbages 924 87
Carrots 568 63
Garlic 2 764 87
Kohlrabi 783 45
Holdings reporting Area under crops (ha)
Grapes _ 482
Peaches 2 083 153
Oranges 824 46
Lemons 774 27
Permanent crops
Livestock
Holdings reporting Number of head
Cattle, total 281 18 417
Under 1 year
Total 5 148
Male _ 2 447
Female _ 2 701
1 to 2 years
Total 3 462
Male _ 1 276
Female _ 2 186
2 years and over
Total 9 807
Male _ 189
Female _ 9 618
Sheep _ 10 376
Goats _ 3 930
Pigs 157 81 841
Horses 507 817
Asses _ 36
Rabbits 1 042 55 254
Chickens 847 1 940 445
Ducks 94 1 460
Turkeys 55 4 824
Machinery
Number of units
Tractors 1 996
Combines (Harvester-threshers) 28
Trucks 869
Vans 2 650
Motor-sprayers 4 892
Rotary hoes 964
Irrigation pumps 5 785
Machinery tractor-operated
Forage harvesters 263
Balers 913
Manure spreaders 61
Potato lifters 130
Sprayers 835
MALTA - Agricultural Census 2001 - Explanatory Notes Historical outline: Since 1955, the responsibility for the organization and administration of agricultural surveys and censuses falls over the Government Statistician. Accordingly, censuses were carried out by the Central Office of Statistics, now the National Statistics Office (NSO). Data here presented refer to the 2001 Census of Agriculture. Previous agricultural censuses were conducted in 1982/83, 1979, 1968/69, 1960, 1949/ 50. Organization: NSO organized the 2001 Census of Agriculture in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture. Moreover, NSO and the Ministry of Education agreed to make available a number of classrooms in the Government primary schools in all the villages, for interviewing purposes. Enumeration period: The census interviews were held between October 22 and November 11, 2001. Reference date: For land, animal numbers and machinery: September 30, 2001. For crop and livestock production: the agricultural year from 1st October 2000 to 30th September 2001. Definitions: Agricultural holding is a single unit which has a single management and which produces agricultural products. A holding may have agricultural land in different localities and hence, all information related to it is taken at the holder’s residence. No thresholds were applied. The only data not collected were:
• Less than three fruit trees of the same species and
• Ten or less vines on the holding (as these represented less than 0.001 ha). Garigue (Moxa or Xaghri) is land which cannot be ploughed because of scarcity of soil and/or because of predominant rocky nature of soil.
Coverage: The 2001 Agricultural Census covered the Islands of Malta and Gozo. Frame: A postal survey conducted in 1999, updated the Farmers Register. All available administrative registers (market sales lists, fruit tree purchases, Farmers’ Registration Code (FRC) and records of commercial sales to agriculture-related industries) were used to refresh the agricultural holdings’ register. As a result, a register of 12,127 agricultural holdings was used as census frame. Methods: Complete enumeration of holdings was performed, so that all agricultural holdings in the register were observed. Data were collected “as per holder’s declarations”. The holdings were grouped into two categories:
• In the first category, holdings having less than 0.3 ha of agricultural ‘dry land’ and no means of irrigation were served with a Postal Questionnaire. (The nature of these holdings with no irrigation and consequently depending entirely on the rainy season is well known; such holdings normally grow fodder, potatoes and onions).
• The rest of the holders, having all other agricultural activities, were interviewed personally at the Government primary schools. The closing date of the census was the 11th November 2001. Non-respondents were given the opportunity to fill in the questionnaire at the Agricultural ‘Extension Services’ till the end of January 2002. (This pushed up the response rate by a further 3 per cent to 95 per cent).
Data source: Census of Agriculture 2001 – Valletta: National Statistics Office, 2003 xxviii, 227p. ISBN 99909-81-973 Mailing address:
• National Statistics Office, Lascaris, Valletta, Malta, Tel: (+356) 21 22 32 21/5 Fax: (+356) 21 24 98 41/ 21 24 84 83.
• Agriculture and Fisheries Statistics Unit, Tel: (+356) 21 22 46 75 / 25 99 75 29, E-mail: nso@gov.mt
Website: http://www.nso.gov.mt
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