Sverdlovsk Region’s livestock goes down

19 November 2015 (09:42)

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 19, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region’s farmers ended up with fewer head of cattle this year (including not only cows but also sheep and goats) than a year earlier, Sverdlovskstat reports.

It is reported the overall number went down by 1% in January-October 2015 compared with January-October 2014 and now comes to 272,000. The number of cows dropped by 1.6%, down to 116,900, that of sheep and goats by 5.7%, down to 69,100.

At the same time, the overall count of pigs rose by 2.8%. up to 344,500, and that of poultry by2.3%, up to 13.6m.


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