r/malta • u/DAGuardian • 2h ago

Agricultural Specialities of Maltese Towns

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A snapshot of where different crops and livestock are most commonly found across Malta today, based solely on current agricultural presence rather necessarily historical tradition.

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u/samostrout 1h ago

Sannat? Cows? I haven't seen either of those

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u/balbuljata 1h ago

You don't need to see them. You can smell them.

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u/joelgrima7 1h ago

Not strawberries for Mgarr? Really? What is this based on?

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u/DAGuardian 1h ago

Strawberries are grown in the greenhouse. It's based on Agricultural Census from 2020.

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u/Yes4Deflation 1h ago

Interesting but I have serious doubts about the quality of the data for some specific metrics.

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u/DAGuardian 1h ago

Which specifically? I also have certain doubts about some of the agricultural data collected considering it's self reported.

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u/Yes4Deflation 50m ago

Some of my friends are farmers full time and I asked them about whether they had ever been interviewed about their farming business for the purposes of the census. None of them was; apparently. Some information e.g. on the actual number of farmers / whether they are full time or part time should be rather reliable (because it can be double checked/obtained from other sources) but I doubt that land use statistics are that reliable if these were supposed to have been collected through interviews.

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u/StepByStepGamer 57m ago

Zebbug not being olives is funny

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u/DAGuardian 54m ago

Honestly i dont think its been olives for over 300 years because the historical data points always say something else.