In January-April of 2018, the volume of agricultural commodities production in Russia totaled 932.6 bln RUR in current prices, an increase of 2.6% compared with the figures in the same period last year, reported the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat).
As a reminder, in the Ist quarter of the current year the figures also totaled 2.6%.
At the same time, in April 2018 the production rates in the agricultural sector increased by 2.5% compared with the same month of 2017 — to 308.3 bln RUR.
Also, the department stressed that the reporting estimations were preliminary only.