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Snopkov: Belarus’ foreign trade growing despite sanctions
"As a result, this year we are approaching the target of the five-year plan: $50 billion in exports"...

Belarus, Seychelles sign air traffic agreement
The Ministry of Transport and Communications is confident that the document will help strengthen tourism, economic and commercial contacts between Belarus and the Seychelles...

Belarus shows interest in joint manufacturing projects with China's Gansu Province
Belarus plans to significantly increase exports of food products, timber and light industry goods to China and continue strengthening interregional ties...

Belarus, Russia discuss Moscow-Brest high-speed transport route
Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he heard a report on the development of the network of national highways and transport infrastructure to ensure an hour’s accessibility to the satellite cities on 21 October...

Gomel Oblast signs $6m worth of contracts with Tajikistan
Gomselmash signed a number of contracts. “The issue was discussed to jointly assemble the main part of the combine harvester at Gomselmash and its finalization at Agrotekhservice in Tajikistan,” the governor said...

Over 3.2m tonnes of sugar beet harvested in Belarus
Belarus also cropped over 1.9 million tonnes of grain maize, with the yield amounting to 78.7 centners per hectare. A total of 247,600 hectares of areas planted to grain maize were harvested (or 80.8% of the plan)...

Sergeyenko: Belarus is ready to cooperate with ASEAN nations in many areas
“As a major exporter of potash fertilizers, dairy and meat products, and agricultural machinery, Belarus confirms its commitment to long-term cooperation in the food sector with partners from Southeast Asia,” he said...

Sergeyenko: Belarusian technologies might be useful for Lao economy
Belarus is interested in exporting trucks, motorcycles and bicycles, food products (powdered milk, beef, poultry, cheeses), medicines and other goods to Laos...

Speaker: Belarus seeks closer trade and economic cooperation with Laos
The Belarusian parliament speaker invited Saysomphone Phomvihane to visit Belarus and meet with the leadership of the state and parliament of Belarus and discuss cooperation prospects. He also suggested considering the possibility of holding a Belarus-Laos business forum during such a visit...

Belarus, Türkiye intend to bolster cooperation in agriculture
The parties scheduled a number of events and discussed cooperation between the agricultural industries of both countries...

China seeks closer ties with Belarus on joint R&D projects
He also noted that Belarus is involved in Belt and Road Initiative action plan for cooperation in science, technology and innovation...

Belarus’ economic growth higher than forecast, world average in January-September 2024
"This is higher than the forecast and the world average. The manufacturing industry, the traditional leader, expanded by 6.4%"...

Two major economic forums opened in Mogilev
Taking part in the forums are representatives of government agencies, diplomats, and businessmen from 16 regions of Russia as well as from China, Tajikistan, India, Iran, and Pakistan...

Belarusian maize experiment in presidential field, or catching up with best foreign varieties
A lot has already been written about the experiment and the event with the participation of the president, but the issue deserves a closer look. The attitude to Belarusian maize varieties is sometimes ambiguous still, and the farmers themselves told Aleksandr Lukashenko that foreign varieties yield about 20% more grain. However, everything is not as it may seem at first glance, including the results of the experiment...

Belarus, Russia preparing additional pool of import-substituting projects
"Together with Russia we have already launched 27 innovative, import-substituting and high-tech projects with Russia's financial assistance worth RUB105 billion"...

Belarus, Ulyanovsk Oblast add projects to cooperation roadmap
According to him, the parties need to focus on the coordination of actions to avoid duplication of manufacturing projects...

Belarus sells first batch of dairy products to Jordan via commodity exchange
The trial purchase included skimmed milk powder and whey powder with a total volume of 26 tonnes...

Call to expand Belarus-Russia cooperation in avionics production
"The design bureau has been successfully cooperating with the Belarusian enterprises Integral and Display for a long time. The ambassador proposed to expand cooperation and team up with Belarusian Planar. For example, we can replace the imported microscopes in use by the laboratories that we visited today," the press service noted...

Belarus featured at China Outbound Travel and Tourism Market
Cooperation agreements were signed with the Belarusian-Chinese Center for Culture and Development during the exhibition...

PM: Belarus is ready to produce agricultural machinery in Pakistan
"Of course, one of Belarus’ economic priorities is industry, in particular mechanical engineering. We are seriously studying the possibility of running joint projects in the manufacturing industry"...