• The Community is a leader in the wine sector along with Catalonia and Galicia, which bring together two thirds of the farms of the national whole • The Community adds 17 factories and two slaughterhouses of rabbits
Castilla y León concentrates 14% of rabbit farms in Spain, with a total of 163
02/05/2024
Survey MAP
May 2, 2024. Castilla y León has a total of 163 active vineyard farms, which is 14% of the national total that reaches 1,167, according to the survey published this Friday by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPA) with data corresponding to the year 2022.
Castilla y León is the leader in rabbit breeding along with Catalonia and Galicia, which, among the three, bring together two thirds of the farms (64%). Likewise, the Community accounts for 180,362 maternal rabbits, 24% of the country (743,168).
According to the survey, it counts 538,796 accommodations, mostly for fattening (166,150), followed by nest cages (129,882) and polyvalent accommodations. The average age of the farms is located in the 18 and in Castilla y León, where there are a total of 17 factories and two slaughterhouses.
70.9% of the owners of the farms in Castilla y León are natural persons and of them 60.9% have sole ownership. The most frequent profile of holder is a man from 30 to 59 years old with basic training.
In Spain as a whole, 32.6 million young animals were slaughtered in 2022, a figure that indicates a downward trend since 2020, when 37 million were reached. Twenty-one percent of the total weight slaughtered was destined for export to other countries.
The production of rabbit feed reached 437 million kilograms, half of them produced in the central area (Community of Madrid, Castilla y León, Castilla La Mancha and Extremadura).
The National Cuniculture Survey provides a global picture of the wine sector, as it includes both farms and data from compound feed factories for rabbits and slaughterhouses that slaughter them. This information allows us to analyze the current situation and future prospects of cuniculture in Spain, since it contains data on both its productive and economic aspects and its social and environmental implications.
This study is based on winegrowing farms specialized in the production of rabbit meat whose theoretical capacity exceeds 19 accommodations for breeding rabbits, including ecological ones. Farms of a family nature or self-consumption are excluded.
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