The open joint stock company Belsolod is expanding its presence on the markets of Southeast Asia, the company’s director general Sergei Gorbatsevich declared. “The Belarusian president set a goal to diversify sales markets. We have met this goal. Today we are advancing into new markets such as Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Malaysia. We have already…
Belarus has reduced beer imports 5-fold in the past two years, Chairman of Belgospishcheprom Concern Alexander Zabello said. “I cannot say that the domestic brewing industry makes no headway. Yes, the sales are shrinking a bit, but we do not have a 10-15% slump as the neighboring countries are registering. Beer exports have reduced 5-fold…
The document specifying how much food Belarus and Russia intend to trade in with each other in 2017 has been preapproved, Alexei Bogdanov, Head of the Central Office for Foreign Economic Activities of the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry, reported on April 27. According to him, a joint session of the boards of the Belarusian…
The Belarusian government expects real revenues of the population to rise, Prime Minister of Belarus Andrei Kobyakov declared. According to the head of government, real salaries in Belarus rose by 1% in Q1 (by 0.5% in January-February). According to statistics, in March the average salary was slightly above Br770. “Salaries are on the rise. The…
In 2017 the share of rapeseed planted areas (winter and spring) in the general structure of crop planted areas in Belarus will rise to 7.5% against 3.9% last year. Thus the planted areas of winter rapeseed for the harvest-2017 totaled 352.7 thousand ha, and the planned areas for spring rapeseed total 86.2 thousand ha, which…
According to initial estimates, in January-March Belarus’ gross domestic product totaled Br22.4 billion or 100.3% in comparable prices as against Q1 2016, the National Statistics Committee of Belarus reported. In January-March the GDP deflator index amounted to 107% as against the same period of last year. (BelTA/Business World Magazine)
The Belarusian potassium manufacturer Belaruskali intends to start making a new kind of fertilizers using Chinese technologies, Ivan Golovaty, Belaruskali Director General, member of the International Affairs and National Security Commission of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus, declared. The executive said that Belaruskali was considering a number of investment…