ARMENIA’S AGRICULTURE OUTPUT GROWS 5.9% IN JAN-OCT 2013 TO AMD 788.9 BILLION

YEREVAN, December 3. /ARKA/. Armenia’s Jan-Oct 2013 agriculture
output amounted to about AMD 788.9 billion in current prices – 5.9%
year-on-year growth, National Statistical Service reports.

Agriculture and fishery aggregate output grew 6.3% in Jan-Oct 2013,
compared with the same period a year before, to over AMD 804 billion.

According to the statistical report, the cattle breeding segment
released products worth AMD 254.4 billion in Jan-Oct 2013 (4.9%
year-on-year growth), the plant-growing segment accounted for an
output worth about AMD 534.5 billion (6.4% growth) and fishery for
an output amounting to AMD 15 billion (30.2% growth).

Some 23.6 tons of cattle and chicken meat were sold in October 2013 –
24.9% year-on-year growth.

Milk output grew 16% in October 2013, compared with October 2012,
to AMD 43,500 tons.

Kotayk province released the largest milk output – 20,600 tons.

Instead, egg production feel 20.1% to 32.6 million eggs. Kotayk
produced the greatest number of eggs – 7.2 million.

Fish output totaled 946 tons in October (18.7% year-on-year growth),
and the whole output has been sold. ($1 – AMD 403.31). —–0—-

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From: Baghdasarian