Livestock are dying in the war in Ukraine but in March, the reduction of livestock has stopped

The full-scale war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine led to the fact that the number of cattle in Ukraine decreased by 376.8 thousand heads. This is reported in the Association of Milk Producers. It is possible that the increase in the number of cattle and cows in the farms of the population is connected not only with seasonal growth, but also with the clarification of data on the number of animals that were kept in the farms of the front-line regions, which were lost or not made public in the conditions of military and political instability in 2022, - said the analyst of the Association of Milk Producers, Georgy Kukhaleishvili. According to him, the number of animals in the industrial sector of Ukraine has increased. The increase is about 86.1 thousand heads, if compared with February data. The expert explained the appearance of such a plus by the relocation of enterprises. Also, the inconsistency of the data is due to the inability of some regions, due to the war, to ...