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Lukashenko wants new efficient cattle reproduction technology in Belarus
Farmers and scientists are called to team up in order to develop an effective cattle reproduction technology, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said at the plenary session of the nationwide seminar-conference held on 22 September to discuss the development of the country’s cattle breeding industry...

Call to set up poultry breeding and genetic center in Belarus
The key task in poultry farming is to reduce the industry's dependence on imports, Aleksandr Lukashenko emphasized. So far there has been no alternative to imported chickens for the production of hatching eggs...

Lukashenko: Modernization of cattle-breeding facilities will continue
The head of state stressed that huge investments have been injected in the modernization of the industry. Half of all commercial dairy farms (1,600) are equipped with the most advanced technologies, account for more than 65% of the country’s milking herd and more than 70% of milk output in Belarus...

Belarus’ sugar beet harvest exceeds 900,000t
As of 22 September, some 7,550,100 tonnes of grain was cropped in Belarus. This included 6,511,500 tonnes of grain and leguminous crops and 1,038,600 tonnes of rapeseed...

Sustainable development of UAE, Belarus seen as most important goal of cooperation
He noted that Belarus has a great potential and extensive experience in agriculture and food production...

Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Belarus’ Grodno Oblast to step up cooperation
According to him, the most important area is agricultural production. He also mentioned that half of the equipment and technologies used in the Russian region are Belarusian-made. According to Solomon Apoyan, this sector needs to be further expanded...

Ambassador: Belarus offers great opportunities for Pakistani investors, business
According to the diplomat, despite the fact that economic relations between the two countries have been developing at a fairly high pace, the potential for their improvement is still huge...

Ambassador: Iran-Belarus economic cooperation holds great promise
The ambassador outlined several major avenues for the development of fruitful economic relations. For example Belarusian road-building equipment and farm machines, products of the pulp and paper industry, synthetic fibers, fertilizers, including potash may be in demand...

Belarus named CIS leader in development of information, communication technologies
Belarus is the CIS leader in terms of development of information and communication technologies. Belarusian First Deputy Communications and Informatization Minister Pavel Tkach mentioned it at the 45th session of the Telecommunications and Infocommunication Operators Board of the Regional Commonwealth in the Field of Communications (RCC)...

Belarus’ buckwheat harvest exceeds 40,000t
In addition to that, 40,200 tonnes of buckwheat (yields are 14.7 centners per hectare) and 17,600 tonnes of millet (yields reach 19.1 centners per hectare) were threshed...

Belarusian ambassador to South Korea meets with Jecheon mayor
The parties also talked about promising projects of investment cooperation and preferential working conditions in the China-Belarus industrial park Great Stone which may be of interest to the business community of the Republic of Korea...

Belarus takes part in food & drink trade exhibitionin in Saudi Arabia
Belarus' collective exposition featured the dairy industry flagships: Minsk Dairy Plant No. 1, Slutsk Cheese Factory, Glubokoye Milk Canning Plant, Kalinkovichi Dairy Plant, a branch of Rogachev MKK...

Belarusian Industry Ministry enterprises to showcase products at Innoprom Kazakhstan expo
In his words, the Belarusian industrial companies Gomselmash, MAZ, Atlant, Horizont, and other ones will showcase their products at the expo...

Representatives of Chinese nuclear companies visiting Belarus
During the visit Belarusian and Chinese specialists will discuss a broad range of matters of mutual interest and promising cooperation avenues: consulting support, advancement of cooperation with the training center of the Tianwan nuclear power plant in training (retraining) managers, operators, and technicians...

Gomel Economic Forum to welcome representatives of 13 countries
The program will comprise a plenary sitting, three breakout sessions (Production and Construction Potential, Tourism and Social Sector and Small and Medium-sized Business), as well as two exhibitions - PromStroyAgro and the one to display scientific and technical achievements of Gomel Oblast organizations...

Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange to simplify purchase of analog products for agribusiness
In practice buyers will be able to indicate their willingness to buy substitutes when they place purchase bids...

Belarus to launch production of Hongqi cars
"The first 36 car kits have already been delivered to the plant. The target task for this year is to approach 1,000 units within the remaining three months"...

Belarus’ potato harvest reaches 257,000 tonnes
As of 19 September, some 7,482,500 tonnes of grain was cropped in the country. This included 6,223,100 tonnes of grain and leguminous crops and 1,031,700 tonnes of rapeseed...

Belarus boosts cooperation with China’s Jiangsu Province
Andrei Andreyev held a number of meetings to discuss areas of cooperation between Belarus and Jiangsu Province and the city of Lianyungang...

PM: Trade between Belarus, Russia’s Krasnodar Territory up by quarter since year-start
"I remember well how you launched the cooperation projects in mechanical engineering. These are tractors and combine harvesters. We have also made significant progress in terms of passenger vehicles and elevator equipment. The machine-building industry is an extensive field of cooperation and requires special attention," the Belarusian head of government said...