The number of sheep in the Russian Federation has decreased by 16% since 2015

The reduction in the number of sheep in Russia since 2015 amounted to about 4 million heads, Mikhail Yegorov, general director of the National Union of Sheep Breeders, said on Thursday. Thus, the total reduction in livestock over seven years was about 16%. "We do not yet have all the results, but there are some indicators on which the National Union of Sheep Breeders made an assessment. Until 2015, sheep and goat breeding in the Russian Federation gained momentum against the 90s and reached 24 million 881 thousand heads. Since December 2015 lost 4 million sheep in the past year," he said during the forum "Development of Sheep Breeding in the North Caucasus." Egorov noted that the active pace of development of sheep breeding is now observed in Dagestan. "Dagestan gives half of the mutton in carcass weight for slaughter from the entire volume of the North Caucasus Federal District. Dagestan is one of the few regions that develops processing," he said. The head of the national union ...