what Russian regions are rich in – Business – Kommersant

Rosstat summed up results agricultural micro-census 2021. “Kommersant” decided to conduct his own small study and find out which farm animals are more in which Russian region. For this, data on farms of all categories were used. For each region, only one species was taken, which prevailed in terms of the number of livestock. Birds and bee colonies are excluded from the final calculations.

As our study showed, in more than every third Russian region (31), the most common animal is a pig. The Belgorod region became the leader in terms of livestock, where 3 pigs (4.7 million) per capita are kept. In the neighboring Kursk region, the ratio is 2.1. In 24 regions, cattle are predominant. The leaders here are Tatarstan and Bashkortostan with about 900 thousand livestock in each republic. Rounding out the top 3 are sheep (17 regions). In Dagestan, Kalmykia, Karachay-Cherkessia and the Republic of Tyva, there are more of them than people.

In the regions of the north, reindeer are the predominant species. Since they were not taken into account in the microcensus, additional data Rosstat for them (as well as for others that have not made it to the tops anywhere) are taken from the EMISS statistical portal.

Rabbits are quite rare as the leading species (3 regions). And the predominance of horses was recorded only in one region – Yakutia, where they defended the primacy of cattle.

If we take the situation for the country as a whole, the top 3 dominant species reflect the pattern by region – pigs, sheep and cattle. Donkeys, camels, mules and hinnies are poorly represented in quantitative terms. Do not get anywhere in the leaders and goats.

There are no official statistics on the number of pets. According to research Mars Petcare, in 2020, 63.5 million cats and dogs lived in Russian families. This figure corresponds to the number of all three of the most common types of farm animals combined.