Cattle livestock in Ukraine (excluding the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea, Sevastopol, parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions) as of October 1, 2019 amounted to 3.597 million animals, which is 5.1% down on the same date in 2018, the State Statistics Service has reported.
The number of cows by this date also decreased 4.8%, to 1.89 million head.
According to the State Statistics Service, the number of pigs as of October 1, 2019, fell by 3.1%, to 6.25 million animals, the number of sheep and goats declined by 3.2%, to 1.47 million animals compared to the same period of 2018.
The number of poultry in the country compared with October 1, 2018, increased 4.6%, to 249.797 million birds.
