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Lukashenko lauds farmers for great results amid challenging season
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MINSK, 11 November (BelTA) – Despite a challenging year, Belarusian farmers delivered better results than before, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said at a ceremony to honor best-performing agricultural workers in Minsk on 11 November, BelTA has learned.
The president started the ceremony by underscoring two key points. These conclusions, he said, will be fundamental in shaping the future course of the country’s agricultural policy.
“First of all, my advice to you, the best farmers, and to those listening: we need to stop whining and complaining that we don’t have enough people in the countryside. We have everything we need, and this year is proof of that. The year has been very difficult. I cannot recall such a challenging period for agriculture and the processing industry as this year,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said. “It was a very difficult year. So what? This year, despite my exacting standards and pickiness (a farmer trait), we all saw (not just me) that you have performed much better than in previous years. Much better, despite everything that was happening around us.”
“It was as if the Lord was testing us to our limits. And yet? We delivered excellent results. We can already state this today. Maybe I am exaggerating. Not excellent, but the best we have ever had. When we are determined, we have enough people, enough machinery, enough discipline, and enough order. I am talking in general.Although, to be specific, as you have heard regarding Vitebsk Oblast and from my trips to the south of Belarus, some things are unacceptable, extremely negative,” the head of state noted.
Aleksandr Lukashenko stressed that “if we set our minds to it, we can do anything.”“Therefore, we must stop complaining about having many problems in agriculture. We must be prepared for this every day. So, let’s stop complaining and start working,” the Belarusian leader urged.
The second point made by the president stems from the first. The performance in the current year is traditionally assessed against the previous year’s indicators. Aleksandr Lukashenko suggested that the agricultural sector should abandon this practice from now on and evaluate the results of a particular year using the 2025 level as a benchmark. “This is a task for our agricultural sector leaders and our economists. The indicators of this year should become the criterion for evaluating future periods. It will be important for me to see that you have reached the level of this year’s indicators. Because it was the best in these parameters,” the president instructed. “Most importantly, we achieved these results not in theory, but in practice. So why shouldn’t we compare with this year? Therefore, since we have reached this peak level, we will henceforth compare and evaluate ourselves, and above all agriculture, against the level of this year.”
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