OREANDA-NEWS. The growth was determined by an increase in the fruit and vegetables output by 52.3%, whereas the livestock sector output stayed the same as compared with the past year, the National Bureau of Statistics reports. In the reporting period, the output of all livestock enterprises and households declined 0.9% to 128.9 thousand tons.

The output of enterprises increased 27.8% to 43.3 thousand tons, whereas the output of household decreased 11.4% to 85.6 thousand, the cattle stock decreasing 6%, pigs stock declining 17%, poultry stock falling 6%, goats and seep one sliding 0.8%. Within 9 months of 2013 cow milk output increased 1.3% to 392.8 thousand tons thanks to households where it grew 1.5% to 381.1 thousand tons. The milk output at enterprises decreased 7.1% to 11.7 thousand.

Eggs output in Moldova increased 2% to 462.1 million, growing 11.3% to 188.7 million eggs at enterprises thanks to the growth in an amount of layers by 11% and their fertility by 0.6%. At household the output of eggs decreased 3.7% to 273.4 million eggs. By estimates, the gross wheat crop at all enterprises and households has exceeded 995,000 tons, twice as much against the past year. The barely crop was about 212,000 tons, 1.8 times up against the crop of the last year.

The average capacity of grain-crops and grain legumes was 27.4 hundreds kilograms per ha, 67.1% up as compared with 2012. The average capacity was 29 hundreds kilograms per ha for wheat (71.6% up); 22.2% hundreds kilograms per ha for barley (53.1% up), and 34.1 hundreds kilograms per ha for maize (3.3 times up). It was 20.8 hundreds kilograms per ha for sunflower (90.8% up); 152.6 hundreds kilograms per ha for potatoes (26.7% up); 63.8 hundreds kilograms per ha for vegetables (17.5% up); 64.5 hundreds kilograms per ha for fruit (51.1% up), including 80.9 hundreds kilograms per ha for seed fruit (50.4% up), and 47.9 hundreds kilograms per ha for stone fruit (71.7% up). The grapes capacity averaged 64.6 hundreds kilograms per ha (61.1%).