Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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211. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farming families per county based on census 2016 figures. [46446/18]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Official statistics on farm numbers are compiled by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) and come from two sources, the Census of Agriculture and the Farm Structure Survey . The Census of Agriculture, which is carried out every ten years, compiles data on the number of family farms in each county. The last agriculture census was taken in 2010 with the next census of agriculture expected to be held in 2020. The table below shows the number of family farms based on the 2010 census.

A Farm Structure Survey takes place every three years, where a sample of farms are surveyed. The 2016 Farm Structure Survey indicated that there are 137,500 farms in the country, with 72,500 in the Border, Midland & Western region and 65,000 in the Southern & Eastern region.

2010 Agriculture Census - CSO - Family Farms