Agricultural producers in Nizhny Novgorod region in January-April 2019 exported food and raw materials in the amount of 77,1 million U.S. dollars, compared to the same period 2018 44.1% more.

Abroad began to export more than confectionery, pasta, oil and fat, flour-grinding products. Implemented export and cattle.

We will remind, earlier the head of the region Gleb Nikitin has set the task to 2024 to increase exports of agricultural products to 492 million — 2.2 times. While the Agency is working on the issues of increasing the number of exporting enterprises and expanding the list of exported products. The possibility of attracting relevant investors to the region.

According Nizhegorodskaja for 2018 export brought 5486 million dollars. For food products and agricultural raw materials (except textile) had 214,4 million dollars. The greatest volume of income from machinery, equipment and vehicles — 1523,6 million dollars.

Import during the same period had 3244,5 million dollars, where food and agricultural raw materials — 250.2 m million US dollars,

Production of livestock products in farms of all categories for the first five months of 2019 were as follows: cattle and poultry for slaughter in live weight — 13 tons (growth by 17.2% to the corresponding period in 2018), milk — 58.1 thousand tons (growth by 3.2%), eggs — 118,6 million units (a decline of 5.2%).

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