Economic growth in the agro-industrial complex reached 11.4% in 2018

Submitted by bashun on Mon, 08/20/2018 - 14:20

In the first half of 2018 agriculture showed significant growth - by 11.4% (minus 2.1% in the first half of 2017), agropolit.com reported.

The growth, to a greater extent, was due to an increase in the volume of production of crop production by 1.8 times ("minus" 8.5% in the first half of 2017) in a faster harvesting campaign for early varieties of crops and winter rapeseed in certain regions.

Also there was an increase in livestock production by 0.1% (minus 0.9% in the first half of 2017), which was supported by the development of the poultry industry.

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