In January-March of 2017, the volume of agricultural commodities production in Russia totaled 640.9 bln RUR in current prices, an increase of 0.7% compared with the index in the same period last year, declared the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) on April 19.
At the same time, in March 2017 the growth of production in the agricultural sector reached the level of 1.1% compared with the same month in 2016 - to 277.6 bln RUR.
Also, the department stressed that the reporting estimations are preliminary only.
