Russia: Rosselkhoznadzor named the number of animals registered in the country

On September 1, the law on mandatory labeling and registration of farm animals (No. 221-FZ) will come into force in Russia. How many animals have already been registered in our country today, Rosselkhoznadzor said. According to the department, as of today, data on 4.5 million animals that are subject to individual registration have been uploaded to the Horriot information system. Most of them are cattle - about 3 million heads. The number of registered small cattle is over 985 thousand heads, horses - almost 51 thousand heads. Also, information about 10 thousand service dogs was entered into the information system. In addition, the accounting covered more than 433 million animals that are subject to group accounting. In particular, data on 214 million fish, 203 million poultry, 8.5 million pigs and 4 ...