USDA releases 2012 Puerto Rico census of agriculture
Washington, June 27, 2014 – Today the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) released 2012 Census of Agriculture data for Puerto Rico. This release marks more than a century of agriculture census data collection in Puerto Rico, where the first agriculture census was conducted in 1910. "The Census is the leading source of statistics about Puerto Rico’s agricultural production and the only source of consistent, comparable data at the municipio level," said NASS Administrator Joseph T. Reilly. "Conducted in cooperation with the Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture and the University of Puerto Rico Extension Service, the 2012 Census of Agriculture provides information on the area’s unique agriculture industry that is gathered at the local level." Data highlights from the publication include: Farms and Farmland Number of farms on the island decreased 16 percent from 15,745 in 2007 to 13,159 in 2012. The average size of a Pue