Poultry farms of Chelyabinsk Region have produced 863.5m eggs over the ten months of 2006, which exceeds the figures for January-October 2005 by 1.4%, and 57,200 tons of fowl, which exceeds the figures for January-October 2005 by 33%. On average, the ‘egg productivity’ of the hens went up by 1.6% and came to 273.2 eggs per layer; the weight increase comprised 4.3% and amounted to the average of 42.8 grams a day per broiler

The regional farmers have already used 1.5bn RUR and are going to use another 1.8bn within the framework of the National Agricultural Development project, reports the spokesperson for Chelyabinsk Region Ministry of Agriculture.