According to an employee of the Federal State Statistics Service, by September 2019, the number of cattle in the Russian Federation had significantly decreased.

We are talking about reducing the number of individuals from the assets of objects of all categories of business of the Russian Federation by nineteen million heads. For a clear comparison, it should be noted that a year earlier in the country there were half a percent more cows and other horned animals. Than this month.

It will not be superfluous to note that there is a decrease in the number of such agricultural animals as goats and sheep. In this case, we are talking about a reduction of three and a half percent. And today, the number of individuals of this cattle in the Russian Federation does not exceed twenty-four million seven hundred thousand.

But the increase is observed only in the stock of Russian pigs. Over the year, these animals "added" in the number of almost six percent. Now the number of domestic pigs reaches twenty-five million eight hundred thousand heads.

It should be added that in percentage terms, the country's livestock population looks something like this: eleven and a half percent of pigs, forty-six percent of goats and sheep, and forty-two and a half percent of cows.