According to the latest data, Belarusian farmers have harvested 154,400 tonnes of vegetables, with the yields (exclusive of peas) at 360.8 centners per hectare. A total of 5,270 hectares of areas were cleared, which is 99.8% of the plan, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry. Sugar beet harvest is 97.8% complete, with 101,600 hectares cleared. Farmers harvested over 5 million tonnes of sugar beet, with yields averaging 488 centners per hectare. The harvesting of...

A Union State media company has been established, Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko told journalists following the meeting of the Union State Council of Ministers in Minsk on 5 November, BelTA has learned. “Today, a Union State media company has been instituted, its charter and composition of the supervisory board have been approved. The media organization will act as a single editorial board and buyer of content aimed at promoting the Union State, highlighting its...

A joint China-Belarus center for cooperation in geological sciences has opened at the Research and Production Center of Geology in Minsk, BelTA has learned. The opening ceremony was attended by Belarus’ Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Minister Sergei Maslyak, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to Belarus Zhang Wenchuan, representatives of the Xi'an Center of Geological Survey at the China Geological Survey at the Ministry of...

Belarus and Ryazan Oblast of Russia intend to increase mutual trade to $500 million, including through high-tech products. This agreement was reached during a meeting between Ambassador of Belarus to Russia Aleksandr Rogozhnik and Governor of Ryazan Oblast Pavel Malkov in Ryazan on 29 October, BelTA has learned. "Our mutual trade is growing at a good pace in high-tech products, in particular, microelectronics. This is good news because the transition to high-tech goods is a brand new level...

Minsk is hosting an international conference to discuss legal problems of cooperation between the border agencies of the CIS member states in tackling cross-border crime on 30 October, BelTA has learned. The conference is being held under the auspices of the CIS Council of Border Guard Troops Commanders. According to Sergei Zhilinsky, the head of Belarus' Border Guard Service Institute, the conference brought together high-level delegations, including the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist...

Belarus hosted 6,524 European visitors as part of the visa-waiver program program over past week, BelTA learned from the State Border Committee. A total of 991,295 European residents have visited Belarus since 15 April 2022. They included 310,416 people from Latvia, 571,497 people from Lithuania and 99 625 people from Poland as well as 9,757 citizens from the 35 countries which were added to the visa waiver program on 19 July 2024. Detailed information about the visa waiver is available...