In 2017, the growth rates in agricultural production will somewhat decrease, and will exceed 3%, declared the Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, Alexander Tkachev on October 13.
According to him, in the current year the growth of production in the agro-industrial complex will vary within 2.5-3%. First of all, Russia reached such results through the record harvest of grain crops, and keeping of growing production rates in the livestock breeding at nearly 4%.
As a reminder, in 2016 the growth rates in agricultural production totaled 4.8%.
