CHISINAU (Moldova), August 1 (SeeNews) – Moldova’s agricultural output decreased by 5% on the year in the first half of 2017, mainly due to a strong drop in the plant production sector, the country's statistical office, BNS, said on Tuesday.
"The decline in plant production was influenced by a delay in the crop harvesting campaign caused by extremely unfavourable climatic conditions in the spring of this year," BNS
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Plant production decreased by 28.4% on the year in the six months through June, while livestock production edged down by 0.4%.
During the January-June period of 2017 households of all categories registered an increase in egg production by 6.6%, while the production of cattle and poultry dropped by 0.8%.
Milk production in households of all categories decreased by 3.9%.
Moldova’s total agricultural output increased by 18.6% last year, mainly due to a 26% rise in plant production and growth of livestock production by 3.1%.