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the surface area used for forage, potatoes and
various crops (fruit trees, raspberries, beet FARMS AND UTILISED AGRICULTURAL Table 9.1
and aromatic and medicinal plants) has fallen AREA (UAA) BY PARISH. 2019
significantly.
Farms UAA (m ) % total
2
UAA
In 2019, vineyards occupied 90,042m , 5.3% Canillo 47 4,106,990 20.8
2
less than in the previous year, but a similar Encamp 46 1,900,228 9.6
area to six years ago. Note that 2017 was the Ordino 39 2,919,541 14.8
first year that the seal of quality for Andorran
wines was introduced, and the Government La Massana 55 3,191,746 16.2
grants subsidies to vineyards who subscribe Andorra la Vella 37 382,172 1.9
for the extra effort needed to take part in the Sant Julià de Lòria 64 6,411,930 32.5
quality control, the first step towards obtaining Escaldes-Engordany 28 802,309 4.1
the Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) Total 316 19,714,914 100
awarded by the EU. On the other hand, the
Government, together with the producers, UAA: Utilised Agricultural Area.
started work to obtain the Andorra DO Source: Department of Agriculture.
denomination to guarantee the origin and
quality of wines produced in Andorra.
Due to Covid-19, the 2019 tobacco
Due to the situation caused by Covid-19 and harvest was burnt, as it was
given the physical impossibility of exporting
the tobacco, the 2019 harvest was destroyed impossible to export it.
in 2020, so there are no recorded data (relating
to kg before and after regularisation). A single sale price was agreed for the tobacco, irrespective of
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the quality of leaves harvested last year. The manufacturers who buy the tobacco from producers
cannot export it to France or Italy due to the Covid crisis and therefore, the whole production
had to be burnt at the Waste Treatment Centre (CTRASA). Remember, however, that in 2018
the tobacco harvest was almost 240,000 kg, 20,000 kg more than in 2017, with the increase
concentrated mainly in the parish of Encamp. The parish of Sant Julià de Lòria, the largest in terms
of tobacco harvest, collected about 80,000 kg, 33% of the total.
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AGRICULTURAL AREA BY TYPE OF CROP (in m )
Table 9.2
% variation % total
2013 2019 2013-2019 2019
Pasture 12,773,491 12,689,716 -0.7 61.1
Hay 5,163,754 5,146,703 -0.3 24.8
Tobacco 1,490,809 1,469,255 -1.4 7.1
Fallow 528,074 629,869 19.3 3.0
Market gardening 117,218 126,762 8.1 0.6
Potatoes 200,703 148,191 -26.2 0.7
Vines 90,305 90,042 -0.3 0.4
Miscellaneous (1) 43,721 24,775 -43.3 0.1
Forage (2) 29,634 19,471 -34.3 0.1
Others 415,051 422,204 1.7 2.0
Total 20,852,760 20,766,987 -0.4 100
Utilised Agricultural Area (UAA) - in m 2 19,909,635 19,714,914 -1.0 -

(1) Fruit trees, raspberries, beet and aromatic and medicinal plants / (2) Forage for grazing.
UAA: Utilised Agricultural Area.

Source: Department of Agriculture.