2.8% GROWTH OF GROSS AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT REGISTERED IN ARMENIA IN
FIRST FIVE MONTHS OF 2005 ON SAME PERIOD OF LAST YEAR
YEREVAN, JULY 4, NOYAN TAPAN. The RA gross agricultural output in
January-May, 2005, made 76.7 bln drams (about 170 mln USD), which
exceeded by 2.8% the index of the same period of 2004. According to
the RA National Statistical Service, during the same period, the
plant-growing production made 15 bln 969.3 mln drams (greater by 5.7%
than the index of the first 5 months of 2004), the livestock farming
production – 60 bln 761.3 mln drams (more by 2.1%). 29.8 thousand tons
of meat and poultry was produced in the country (more by 1% than the
index of the first 5 months of 2004), 211.5 thousand tons of milk
(more by 9.5%) and 313.5 mln eggs (less by 8.8%).