In January-June the volume of agricultural commodities production in Russia totaled 1.554 trillion RUR in current prices, an increase of 2.6% compared with the same period last year, the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) declared.
At the same time, in June the growth of production in the agricultural sector reached the level of 2.1% compared with the same month in 2015 – to 326.2 billion RUR.
The department stressed that the reporting estimations were preliminary only. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)