For the first quarter of 2017 Russia produced 1 million tonnes of pigs for slaughter in live weight, which exceeded the same indicator of the previous year by 5.3%.

A larger share znyali agriculture organization, which produced 856,9 thousand tonnes of pork (+3.7 percent).

The main increase in production is marked in the Pskov, Chelyabinsk, Tver, Voronezh oblasts and Stavropol Krai. Reduced the volume of production of the economy in Tomsk, Penza, Vladimir, Ryazan oblasts and Krasnodar Krai.

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