Dairy herd decreased by 95 thousand cows

Livestock raising. At the end of March 2021, the number of cattle in the farms of all agricultural producers, according to Rosstat calculations, amounted to 18.4 million heads (1.1% less than in March 2020).

Dairy herds - 7.9 million heads (decreased by 1.2% or 95 thousand cows), pigs - 26.3 million (increased by 0.7%), sheep and goats - 22.4 million heads (by 3.4 % less), poultry - 541.6 million (1.3% less).

The households of the population owned 40.2% of the cattle population (a decrease of 0.8%), 8.9% of pigs (a decrease of 0.9%) and 46.6% of sheep and goats (an increase of 0.3%) of the livestock population across all farm categories (estimates are compared to March 2020). @agrorisk