Cattle and swine livestock drop 30 percent over past eight years (agricultural census)
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
The swine and cattle livestock amount dropped 34.8 and 30.9 percent and the sheep and goat livestock amount went up by 15.9 and 66.3 percent over the past eight years according to the provisional results of the General Agricultural Census published by the National Institute of Statistics (INS) on Thursday. Compared to the same census in 2002, the number of cattle dropped to 1.985 million and the swine to 5.387 million, whereas sheep went up to 8.386 million and goats to 1.237 ...