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LIDA DISTRICT, 24 March (BelTA) – The state creates favorable conditions for developing business and attracting foreign investors, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said as he met with the employees of Arvibelagro in Lida District on 24 March, BelTA has learned.

“There is no unfair treatment of businessmen in Belarus,” the head of state stressed.

He noted that regional authorities are encouraged to attract foreign investments, so the government is interested in the relevant process.

Alexander Lukashenko was informed about the status of poultry farming in the country and progress in the work to attract foreign investments, create new jobs, and implement cutting-edge import substitution technologies. The head of state got familiar with the modern process of poultry meat processing.

According to the Arvibelagro company management, Belarus has created excellent conditions for doing business, and the investor plans further expansion of the business in the country.

“It bothers me that some projects have been stopped halfway. This project was here unfinished for a long time until people, who are not strangers to us, with whom we once lived in one country (and it does not matter that we live in different countries now) came here. They invested money and started to produce the goods that the country needs. The market here is very big,” the president said when talking to the workers of the company.

“We really need such new jobs. It is good that these people who are not strangers to us have come here, and they do not think that Belarus is an alien country for them. We will help you the same way we help all private companies with whom we have reached agreements, who have come here and launched production,” the president said.

Arvibelagro specializes in turkey farming and turkey meat production. The investment project envisages manufacture of ready-to-cook food, mince, sausages, smoked and sun-dried products, raw turkey. Among the potential sales markets are the countries of the European Union, the Russian Federation and also the market of Belarus. The company mulls over two more turkey farms and a fodder factory.