The growth of agricultural production recorded for the first time in the last 3 months. In 2018, the agricultural production in our country decreased by 0.6% compared to the previous year, this figure fell for the first time since 2012. In 2017, the growth of agricultural production amounted to 3.1 %. At the end of January of the current year in farms of all agricultural producers, there were 18.2 million head of cattle is 0.9 % less than in January 2018, of which 7.9 million cows (down 0.6 %). The number of pigs grew by 3.1% to 24.1 million, sheep and goats declined by 5.9%, to 22.9 million. The farming population accounted for 41% of the cattle population, 10.6% of pigs, 47.6% of sheep and goats (at the end of January 2018 — 41,3%, 12%, 46,2%, respectively). In all categories of farms in January of this year decreased production of livestock and poultry for slaughter to 1.1 million tons in live weight (- 0,4 %), eggs to 3.6 billion pieces (- 0,4 %), increased milk production to 2 million tonnes (+ 2%).
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