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Nearly 7.1m tonnes of grain, including rapeseed, cropped in Belarus
As of 8 September, over 7,096,500 tonnes of grain, including rapeseed, was cropped. This included 6,119,300 tonnes of grain and leguminous crops and over 977,200 tonnes of rapeseed...

Ambassador names key Belarus-Brazil projects
"We are not resting on our laurels. We keep looking for opportunities to increase trade in various products, such as tobacco, chocolate, textiles, tractors, dump trucks"...

Belarus ready to sell harvesters, tractors, TV sets, industrial goods to Africa
Aleksandr Rogozhnik underlined: “We expect Equatorial Guinea to become kind of a hub for shipping Belarusian products to countries of the African continent”...

Belarus, Equatorial Guinea set to grow trade to $100m
There are plans to expand partnerships in the petrochemical sector and the mining industry, in education and personnel training, and healthcare, and to promote interpersonal contacts...

Belarus taking part in international tourism forum in Dushanbe
Belarus is represented by the Tourism Department of the Sports and Tourism Ministry. The Belarusian delegation is taking part in the session “Digitalization of tourism services in the CIS space”. Belarus’ representatives will make a presentation themed “On the digital transformation of the tourism sector in the Republic of Belarus”...

Belarus starts harvesting grain corn
Grain corn harvesting is in progress in three regions of the country: Brest Oblast, Minsk Oblast and Gomel Oblast. Some 1,260 hectares of the areas under corn have been cleared and a total of 9,430 tonnes of corn has been threshed, with yields at 75 centners per hectare. Some 3,768,800 tonnes of green mass has been harvested...

Belarus, Uzbekistan sign Br93.5m worth of contracts at first women’s business forum
“Some 14 memorandums and agreements on cooperation were signed at the plenary session. They included an agreement on the establishment of joint leather and footwear production. A total of 15 contracts worth Br93.5 million, or 350 billion Uzbek sums were concluded,” the Council of the Republic said...

Belarusian MAZ signs $1m supply contract with Uzbekistan
Head of the foreign economic relations department Sergei Papkovich presented MAZ export opportunities...

Belarusian MTZ to sell about 500 tractors worth over $8m to Uzbekistan
Minsk Tractor Works (MTZ trademark) will ship about 500 MTZ tractors to the Uzbek company OOO Texagro-Klaster...

Uzbekistan among Belarus’ top 10 trade partners
At present Belarus is home to 84 organizations with Uzbek capital. They specialize in making special-purpose automobiles, tractors, and footwear...

Kochanova: Belarus is ready to supply Uzbekistan with products
“Our light industry enterprises are interested in attracting qualified personnel from the Republic of Uzbekistan, and we, in turn, are ready to respond to the needs of Uzbekistan’s labor market and promptly organize training for the innovative economy in a wide range of specialties,” Natalya Kochanova said...

Uzbekistan among top 5 buyers of Belarus’ sawn timber at BUCE
The other biggest buyers for Belarusian sawn products include China, Azerbaijan, Singapore and Russia. All in all, in 2023 transactions to buy wood products at BUCE were concluded by companies from 15 states...

Parliament speaker: Belarus-Uzbekistan relations are on the rise
“It is important to support the upward trend we have today, and to use the potential of integration formations, such as the SCO, CIS, and EAEU,” Vladimir Andreichenko stressed...

Belarus harvests 125,600t of sugar beets
A total of over 7,066,000 tonnes of grain was cropped. This included 6,095,500 tonnes of grain and leguminous crops and over 970,000 tonnes of rapeseed...

Belarus may set up assembly plant in Russia’s Orenburg Oblast
Dmitry Krutoi and Denis Pasler discussed the supply of agricultural machinery (the share of MTZ in the local market is 56%, the presence of Gomselmash in the market is steadily growing), financial instruments to support exports, the quality of Belarusian products and services, and import substitution in breeding and seed production...

Bellesbumprom’s export to Uzbekistan up 1.5 times
The export was dominated by sawn timber, paper and cardboard, as well as products made from them and plywood...

Light industry enterprises of Belarus, Uzbekistan sign contracts worth over $2.5m
In particular, Furskins Company and Marko signed an agreement of intent to set up a joint venture to process all kinds of skins and furs. The Uzbekistan Textile and Garment Industry Association (Uztekstilprom) and the design center of OAO Kamvol reached an agreement on cooperation...

PM: Belarus-Uzbekistan trade nearly tripled over five years
He noted that Belarus fully made up for the losses resulting from the sanctions by intensifying cooperation with friendly nations...

Call for keeping up Belarus-Zimbabwe trade growth dynamics
"At the same time we don’t limit ourselves to trade. We work together to implement long-term investment projects in agriculture, light industry, extraction of natural resources, healthcare, and manufacturing cooperation"...

Belarus, Uzbekistan to step up cooperation in light industry
Belarus has something to offer to Uzbekistan’s light industry. "These are products that are not produced in Uzbekistan. In particular, our cotton-polyester fabrics that have special protective properties sell well in Uzbekistan"...