Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Shagaida Natalia Author-Name-First: Natalia Author-Name-Last: Shagaida Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Author-Name: Shishkina Ekaterina Author-Name-First: Ekaterina Author-Name-Last: Shishkina Author-Workplace-Name: RANEPA Author-Name: Gataulina Ekaterina Author-Name-First: Ekaterina Author-Name-Last: Gataulina Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Title: Agriculture in 2018: decline or growth? Abstract: Over recent years, agriculture – if we choose to look at available data prior to their adjustment based on the results of the All-Russia Agricultural Census – has been growing at a sufficiently high rate: in 2013 – by 5.8 percent, in 2014 – by 3.5, in 2015 – by 2.6, in 2016 – by 4.8, and in 2017 – by 2.5 percent3. Overall, growth over the course of 5 years amounted to 20.7 percent. Based on Rosstat’s current statistics, managers on both the federal and regional levels describe the development pattern of the agroindustrial complex (AIC) as a breakthrough and a leap forward. We likewise mentioned this fact in our overviews released over several previous years2. However, in 2018, there were some problems involved in the estimation of the growth rate both for 2018 and for the previous years. Classification-JEL: Q13, Q14, Q15, Q16, Q17, Q18 Keywords: Russian economy, agricultural production Creation-Date: 2019 Revision-Date: 2019 Length: 19 pages File-URL: https://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/ppaper/ppaper-2019-968.pdf File-Format: application/pdf File-Function: Revised Version, 2019 Handle: RePEc:gai:ppaper:ppaper-2019-968