Sverdlovsk Region Government looked into the report on how successfully they have been in implementing the Governor’s developmental program for 2006-2007 so far this year. The report was presented by First Deputy Minister for Economics and Labor Nikolai Bespamyatnikh. He said the region’s gross agricultural produce amounted to 3.7 billion RUR in the first quarter of 2007, which exceeded the figures for a year earlier by 1.7%; besides, the volume of mortgage lending in money terms grew ix times bigger within January and February 2007.