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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...

Corn harvest in Belarus reaches 28,000 tonnes
As of 13 September, some 7,140,800 tonnes of grain, including rapeseed, was cropped in the country. This included 6,153,200 tonnes of grain and leguminous crops and over 987,700 tonnes of rapeseed...

Turkiye’s Zirhlioglu Corporate Group shows interest in cooperation with Belarus
Representatives of the Belarusian National Center for Marketing made a presentation of trade and economic potential of Belarus in the food sector, and also listed promising areas of cooperation for Turkish partners...

Most popular truck models made by Belarusian BelAZ revealed
A 90-tonne truck is another key product. The company is about to finish reconstructing the main assembly line building where this model will be batch-produced...

Belarus’ sugar beet harvest exceeds 347,000 tonnes
As of 12 September, some 7,129,600 tonnes of grain, including rapeseed, was cropped in the country. This included 6,143,800 tonnes of grain and leguminous crops and over 985,800 tonnes of rapeseed...

Belarus posts highest industrial growth in EAEU in January-July 2023
“Belarus posted 7.1% growth, Kazakhstan - 3.6%, Russia - 2.6%, Armenia – 0.5%, Kyrgyzstan registered a decline of 1.8%,” the EEC said...

MAZ, YaMZ designers discuss promising projects
One of the key issues discussed during the meeting was the fulfillment of the schedule of works on the development of prototypes of Euro-5 environmental class vehicles fitted with YaMZ 535 and 537 series engines...

Belarus’ exports to Zimbabwe soar eight times over past five years
"Belarus has delivered 48 fire engines to Zimbabwe. By the end of the year, 131 vehicles will be delivered, they are now in various stages of delivery. Contracts have been signed for the supply of 3,161 tractors, 80 harvesters, and we are starting to fulfill these contracts by the end of the year. We plan to meet these goals in 2023-2025,” Piotr Parkhomchik said...

Belarus’ buckwheat harvest exceeds 24,000 tonnes
Belarusian agricultural workers are harvesting potatoes. Some 129,300 tonnes of potatoes were removed from fields...

Belarus harvests over 7.1m tonnes of grain
This included 6,131,800 tonnes of grain and leguminous crops and over 982,100 tonnes of rapeseed...

Grain harvest in Belarus exceeds 7.1m tonnes
This included 6,126,000 tonnes of grain and leguminous crops and over 980,400 tonnes of rapeseed...

Belarus ships first batch of malt to Equatorial Guinea
According to Belgospischeprom, given the agreements reached between the heads of state to on increase trade between Belarus and Equatorial Guinea, the volume of supplies to Equatorial Guinea will be growing in the coming years...

Belarus looks to set up center of additive technologies with Rosatom
Secondly, Belarus is working a document on long-term cooperation with Rosatom in other areas. "This is cooperation in the application of nuclear technologies in economic sectors, research work together with the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus"...

Energy Ministry outlines advantages of Belarusian nuclear power plant
Apart from that, the commissioning of the Belarusian nuclear power plant will allow decommissioning a number of outdated and no longer economically effective power-generating units at power plants across Belarus and will considerably increase the export potential of Belarus’ power grid...

Vice premier: Equatorial Guinea shows interest in Belarusian technologies
Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo visited the Dzerzhinsky agricultural company as part of his official visit to Belarus. The foreign delegation was shown around an exhibition of products of the Belarusian food industry enterprises, namely meat, dairy, bakery and other products...

Belarus’ Amkodor ready to offer wide range of products to Equatorial Guinea
"We are ready to build and expand contacts with all African countries, we are ready to offer them a wide range of road construction machines, utility vehicles, and agricultural machinery, and help them build grain drying complexes, storage and post-harvest grain processing facilities"...

Belarus’ Gomselmash to ship large batch of equipment to Africa
According to him, a maintenance center for Belarusian equipment has been created in Africa. It provides maintenance services to all equipment shipped to the continent...