The volume of production of agriculture in Russia in January - August 2017 rose 1.5% compared with the figure for the same period in 2016 and $ 2 trillion 841,4 billion rubles this was reported in the materials of Rosstat.

In August 2017 the volume of agricultural production increased by 4.7% compared to August of the previous year and amounted to 712,6 billion. the Number of cattle in farms of all agricultural producers at the end of August amounted to 19.6 million head, 0.8% lower than a year earlier. In particular, the number of cows decreased by 0.9% to 8.3 million, sheep and goats - 1.5% to 26.5 million.

While the number of pigs, according to statistics, increased by 2,5% - to 24 million In January - August 2017 in all categories of farms produced 8.7 million tons (+5.2 percent) of livestock and poultry for slaughter (in live weight), 21.6 million tons (-0.3 percent) milk and 30.4 billion eggs (+2%).

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