Detailed history of areas, flocks and number of operators per EPCI

Source: Agency BIO / Certifying Bodies

These data on the number of operators, areas and herds come from the annual checks that the approved certifying bodies carry out on farms and processing companies engaged in organic distribution.

Geographical accuracy
The data are aggregated at municipal level: Insee code of the municipality of the site of activity or in the absence of the place of business.

Operator data
Number of operators per municipality, or failing that by postal code. All operators are located by their postal code, almost all by the municipality of their head office
ActivityBio:
P: producers (including producers with another activity: processing on the farm, farm shop...)
T: processors or restaurants (including processors with another activity: transformers-distributors or transformers-importers)
D: distributors (including distributors with an import activity: distributor-importers...)
I: importers

Crop groups:
AU: Other of which (fallow, green manure, flowers, mushrooms, etc.)*
SF: Fodder crops (including permanent and temporary grassland, but other fodder crops, rangeland, etc.)
EN: Fruit (arboriculture of which nuts, fresh fruit and processing fruit)
GCU: Field crops (including pulses)
LE: Fresh vegetables (greenhouse or field-painted vegetables (including potatoes)
PP: PPAM
VI: Viticulture (of which 4% table grapes at national level)
HSAU: Excluding utilised agricultural area: surfaces of collective estives, wild picking, wood, marshes... are not taken into account

Data of flocks and hives
Number of animals (or hives) engaged at the end of the year (excluding aquaculture)
nb_exp: Number of farms engaged (with or without areas engaged (including beekeepers, etc.)
CheptelAB: heads or hives having reached the end of their conversion
CheptelConversion*: head or hives in conversion (simultaneous or not)

Group of animal species
VA: Lactating cows
VL: Dairy cows
PO: Laying hens
PC: Broiler chickens
AUVOL: Other broiler poultry
BL: Milk ewes
BV: Meat ewes
CH: Goats
TR: Breeding sows
LAR: Rabbits
LA: Rabbits
AUPA: Other animal production (cervids, snails...)
API: Beekeeping: number of hives