Cattle livestock in Ukraine (excluding the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea, Sevastopol, parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions) as of August 1, 2019 amounted to 3.72 million animals, which is 4.4% down on the same date in 2018, the State Statistics Service has reported.
The number of cows by this date also decreased by 4.4%, to 1.92 million head.
According to the State Statistics Service, the number of pigs as of August 1, 2019, fell by 1.5%, to 6.5 million animals, the number of sheep and goats declined by 3.2%, to 1.54 million animals compared to the same period of 2018.
At the same time, the number of poultry in the country compared with August 1, 2018, increased by 3.9%, to 257.62 million birds.
Cattle numbers in Ukraine as of October 1, 2018 amounted to almost 3.862 million animals, which is 4.1% less than on the same date in 2017, the State Statistics Service has reported. At the same time, the number of cows by the specified date decreased by 3.5%, to 2.018 million animals.
According to the state service, on October 1, the number of pigs decreased by 4% compared to the same date last year, to 6.463 million animals, sheep and goats by 3.2%, to 1.516 million.
The number of poultry in the country increased by 2.2% compared with October 1, 2017, amounting to 238.816 million birds.
