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Great Stone Park discusses cooperation with Iran’s technology park
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Iran to Belarus Alireza Sanei paid a visit to the Great Stone Park. The head of the diplomatic mission got familiar with the construction progress of the park, and also with the activities of the One Station center providing a set of services for residents and investors...

Belarusian Amkodor strengthens ties with Russia’s Omsk Oblast
The members of the delegation got familiar with the company’s product line, saw the permanent exhibition of Amkodor machinery and discussed the prospect of joint projects. The parties highlighted the importance of further development of economic and trade relations between the region and the company...

Corn harvest in Belarus reaches 74,000t
Harvesting corn for grain is underway in Brest Oblast, Grodno Oblast, Minsk Oblast and Gomel Oblast, with 9.960 hectares of land already cleared, 73,700 tonnes of grain threshed and yields averaging 74 centners per hectare...

Grain harvest in Belarus at 7.4m tonnes
In addition to that, 34,500 tonnes of buckwheat (yields are 15 centners per hectare) and 16,200 tonnes of millet (yields reach 19.3 centners per hectare) were threshed...

Belarus harvests 51,100t of corn for grain
As of 16 September, 7,173,100 tonnes of grain, including rapeseed, was cropped in the country. This included 6,182,200 tonnes of grain and leguminous crops and over 990,900 tonnes of rapeseed...

Belarusian manufacturers featured at Armenia Expo 2023
The Made in Belarus exposition features a variety of products. The Belgospishcheprom food industry concern holds the central place in the pavilion: Spartak confectionery factory, OAO Belkofe, the producer of brewing malt Belsolod, Minsk Kristall distillery, the Brest distillery Belalko, Klimovichi distillery, the Pinsk winery and the Slutsk sugar refinery...

Excellent opportunities for investors in Belarusian free economic zones pointed out
Roman Golovchenko remarked that the conditions enabled in free economic zones are effective. They are effective for export, for raising investments, and for profit growth...

Lukashenko suggests trilateral cooperation of Belarus, Russia, North Korea to Putin
Aleksandr Lukashenko also noted that he will inform his Russian counterpart about the steps in cooperation with the African countries, taking into account the recent visit of the president of Equatorial Guinea to Belarus...

Manufacturing sector described as driver of Belarusian economy’s development
"In January-August 2023 the output growth rate totaled 107.9%. It is a very good result taking into account all the current complications and challenges on the part of unfriendly countries"...

Prime minister to review realization of investment projects, import substitution in Mogilev Oblast
Omsk Carbon Mogilev is Belarus’ only manufacturer of technical carbon and employs over 550 people. The company makes products while simultaneously expanding...

Belarusian commodity exchange presents its export capabilities in Moscow
According to Maksim Ignatenko, the positive dynamics was achieved due to the rapid reorientation of export supplies from the European markets to the markets of China, Azerbaijan, Singapore, Russia and Uzbekistan...

Belarus’ millet harvest at 15,700 tonnes
As of 15 September, 7,163,600 tonnes of grain, including rapeseed, was cropped in the country. This included 6,173,400 tonnes of grain and leguminous crops and over 990,200 tonnes of rapeseed...

Textile raw materials from Türkiye now sold via Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange
A major Turkish manufacturer of artificial and natural yarn, fiber, and filament has sold its products via BUCE for the first time. The deal to sell 40 tonnes of viscose yarn to a Belarusian textile industry enterprise was closed via BUCE’s industrial and consumer goods platform...

Belarus’ potato harvest exceeds 180,000 tonnes
As of 14 September, some 7,152,700 tonnes of grain, including rapeseed, was cropped in the country. This included 6,163,400 tonnes of grain and leguminous crops and over 989,300 tonnes of rapeseed...

Belarus, Egypt seek to expand cooperation in business and trade
“The parties discussed the prospect of cooperation between Belarus and Egypt in the industrial sector, taking into account the agreements reached in July 2023 in Cairo during the third meeting of the Belarusian-Egyptian working group on cooperation in industry,” the press service said...

Ambassador: Belarus-Iran cooperation in economy has a huge potential
"At the moment, we have a very good cooperation in terms of pharmaceuticals, the supply of medicines, oil and petrochemicals, and potash fertilizers from the Republic of Belarus to Iran. We also cooperate in the agricultural sector, the supply of machinery and equipment," Ambassador Alireza Sanei said...

About 19bn kWh of electricity generated by Belarusian nuclear power plant so far
Once the second unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant begins commercial operation, the power plant will generate about 18.5 billion kWh of electricity per annum. It will allow satisfying over 40% of the country’s need for electricity and substituting about 4.5-5 billion m3 of imported natural gas per annum...

Innovative products, industrial products on display in Minsk on 15-17 September
Residents and guests of the capital city will be able to see the best products of Belarus’ defense industry and products of Belarusian heavy and light industry enterprises and electronics manufacturers...

Belarusian ambassador hold talks with heads of Russian eastern regions
The talks highlighted supplies of Belarusian agricultural products and machinery, opening of service and distribution centers, multi-brand sites, promising infrastructure and cooperation projects...

Belarus’ consul general pays visit to China’s Xiamen
The parties discussed practical steps to expand trade and economic cooperation, establish twinning ties between Belarus’ Grodno District and China’s Xiamen, establish practical and research cooperation between the Minsk Scientific and Practical Center for Surgery, Transplantology and Hematology and the Xiamen Cardiovascular Surgery Center, and establish direct business ties between Belarusian high-tech enterprises and the BRICS Innovation Center...