Belarus is finishing sowing winter crops. The sowing area exceeded 1 million hectares or 73.5% of the plan. Agricultural companies of Vitebsk oblast were the first to complete the harvesting campaign. They have to sow only 8% of the area, BelTA was told in the head plant growing department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs of Belarus. Mogilev oblast has to sow 11% of the area. Winter crops were sown there in the best agronomical terms. Last year the oblast managed to sow only a...

The Vitebsk Veterinary Academy has set up a regional practical training center of agrarians, BelTA learnt in the Academy. The core goals of the center is to introduce innovation forms and methods of practical and production training and energy-saving technologies in meat and dairy productions, to introduce advanced technologies in grain cultivation and fodder storing, to develop new methods of diagnostics, treatment and prevention of animal diseases. Several local companies have been...

The winners of the 4th competition for the best electrician within the CIS finished in Vitebsk. The team of the Glubokoye electric mains of the republican unitary enterprise Vitebskenergo won the first place. The Russia and Kazakhstan’s teams placed second and third. The competition lasted four days and gathered together professionals from Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

This year nine companies of Vitebsk oblast have certified their production facilities in line with ISO 9001 international standards, BelTA learnt from the economy department of the Vitebsk oblast executive committee. Among them – Marko Ltd, Polotsk Dairy, Orsha Meat-Packing Company, Ekomol, Orsha Cheese Making Plant, Podsvilje Plant of Foodstuffs, Vedren, Polotsk Wine Making Plant and Sitsy Co. from the Dokshitsy region. Till the end of the current year Obolsk Ceramics Factory should...

The Vitebsk oblast plans to establish long-term economic contacts with Saint Petersburg, BelTA learnt from Nikolai Fedorchuk, Senior Counsellor for Transboundary Cooperation and Trade for the Vitebsk Oblast Governor. A fair featuring products of Vitebsk oblast companies will be the first step towards cooperation. The fair is scheduled to take place in the Moskovsky district of Saint Petersburg on September 22-24. The fair will feature products of 25 companies of the Vitebsk oblast, including...

There are plans to implement three major projects to produce chip fuel in the Vitebsk oblast, chief engineer of the Vitebsk manufacturing forestry association Nikolai Privalov told BelTA. In his words, a workshop able to turn out 20,000 compact cubic metres of chip fuel per annum is being set up at the premises of the woodworking workshop of the Gorodok forestry enterprise. Initially the chip fuel will be shipped to boiler houses of the Gorodok region, with plans to supply chip fuel to the...