The area under leguminous crops is supposed to increase to 240,000 hectares in Belarus in 2024, BelTA learned from Belarusian Deputy Agriculture and Food Minister Vladimir Grakun at a press conference dedicated to Day of Workers of Agriculture and Processing Industry of Agribusiness. Vladimir Grakun said: “We have harvested 12,000 tonnes of soybeans this year. We can grow this crop but we cannot get steady harvests every year. This is why we encourage agricultural enterprises to...

It is important for political parties in Belarus to unite the country rather than to split it into pieces through party rivalry, Rector of the Academy of Public Administration under the aegis of the President of Belarus Vyacheslav Danilovich told the media after attending the meeting of the Belarusian head of state with the heads of political parties on 10 November, BelTA has learned. Speaking about the significance and results of the meeting, the expert drew attention to the...

The Union State program on reconciling the macroeconomic policies of Belarus and Russia has been fulfilled. Aleksei Zubovich, Head of the Central Office for Macroeconomic Analysis and Forecasting of the Belarusian Economy Ministry, mentioned it at a joint session of the boards of the Belarusian Economy Ministry and the Russian Economic Development Ministry in Brest, the Economy Ministry's press service told BelTA. Aleksei Zubovich's report covered the realization of the Union State...

Slutsk Cheese-Making Plant has started implementing an innovative project to make lactoferrin. Tatiana Volozgina, Head of the Production Technology Department of KUP Minoblmyasomolprom, the managing company of the holding company Myasomolprom, mentioned it during a roundtable session hosted by BelTA to discuss development strategies, scientific support, product processing for the sake of raising the economic efficiency of the animal husbandry industry. Tatiana Volozgina said:...

Belarus has hosted 758,995 arrivals from the neighboring EU countries since the launch of the visa-waiver program, BelTA learned from the State Border Committee of Belarus. Since the start of the year 2023, Belarus has welcomed 374,009 visitors from the neighboring EU states: 226,592 citizens of Lithuania, 85,529 citizens and 26,157 non-citizens of Latvia, and 35,731 Polish citizens. Since the launch of the visa-waiver program, Belarus has been visited by 474,855 citizens of...