According to agricultural analysts, in 2018, the slaughter rates of domestic pigs were significantly increased. In the period from January to December of the current year, as a result of slaughter of pigs, about 3.7 million tons of product were obtained.
“Last year, we managed to get 314 thousand tons of live weight less,” the Ministry of Agriculture says. “This indicates that farmers were able to increase their pig production for slaughter by more than nine percent.”
The leaders in the production of pigs for subsequent slaughter were representatives of animal husbandry in the Voronezh and Belgorod regions. Their results in 2018 are 91 thousand tons and 38 thousand tons, respectively.
The indicators of the Kursk region are not much lower than those of colleagues from the Belgorod farms: almost 36 thousand tons. Following is the Pskov region with volumes of 32 thousand tons. And the Tomsk Region completes the top five with a result of almost 22 thousand tons.