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One of Italy's leading companies Granarolo is mulling over dairy production in Belarus, Belarus' Vice Premier Mikhail Rusy told media on 10 September, BelTA informs. Various sites are being considered for the implementation of the project. "We have already showed Granarolo a number of Belarusian dairies, including in Gomel, Turov, and Vitebsk," said Mikhail Rusy. It is expected that one of the Belarusian companies will produce dairy products that have not been manufactured in the country...

To develop rural and ecotourism in Belarus, we should study the preferences of our guests and provide state support to promising country estate owners, Olga Makhanenko, the chairperson of the public council on the development of rural and ecotourism in Vitebsk Oblast, the owner of the Priozernaya country estate in Lepel District, told BelTA. "Now is not the right time to increase the number of country estates and the volume of tourism services. It is important to focus on the quality,...

Belarus and Israel are discussing the ways to promote of the joint Agro-Industrial Park project, the Belarusian Minsitry of Foreign Affairs told BelTA when commenting on today's meeting between Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Israel Vladimir Skvortsov and Minister of Immigrant Absorption of the State of Israel, Chairman of the Israeli part of the Joint Belarusian-Israeli Committee on Trade and Economic Cooperation Zeev Elkin. The parties discussed the...

Belarus and Russia are looking into the possibility to create a cross-border biosphere reserve, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Igor Kachanovsky told BelTA. "I have already met with representatives of the Association of Reserves and National Parks of Russia's North-West to talk over the creation of the cross-border biosphere reserve Osveya-Krasny Bor-Sebezhsky National Park. Its creation will take place under the auspices of the UNESCO. The materials on the...

Business circles of Tver Oblast, the Russian Federation are interested in expanding cooperation with Belarusian companies, representative of the European Information Consultative Center of Tver Oblast Tatiana Lvova told media in Vitebsk, BelTA informs. According to Tatiana Lvova, the center is engaged in establishing contacts between Tver entrepreneurs and business circles of other Russian regions as well as foreign countries. “We are glad to have the possibility to present the...

Belarusian agrarians have already cropped over 6 million tonnes of grain, harvesting more than 72% of lands under crops, BelTA learnt from the Agriculture and Food Ministry. As of 10 August, over 1.460 million tonnes of grain was harvested in Minsk Oblast, 1.243 million tonnes of grain was cropped in Brest Oblast. Grodno Oblast has so far harvested 1.080 million tonnes of grain. 883,500 and 824,500 tonnes have been cropped in Gomel and Mogilev Oblasts respectively. Vitebsk Oblast has...