Wednesday, 21 December 2016

Russian pig production up 13.5%

Russia’s Ministry of Agriculture announced today that during the first 11 months of this year, live weight pig production increased by 13.5% compared to the same period last year and amounted to more than 3.1mmt.

According to the Federal State Statistics Service in November, the average price of agricultural producers of pigs in live weight in Russia was 94.08RUB/KG (1.53USD/KG, 1.25GBP/KG).