GORKI, 3 August (BelTA) – Agricultural companies need to pick up the harvest pace, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said as he visited the agricultural enterprise Gorki, Gorki District, on 3 August. The harvest campaign is starting to slow down, according to the President. In order to improve the situation and harvest the crops on time it is necessary to increase the harvest pace by 2-2.5% every day. “These days we must step up the pace, otherwise we will lose the harvest....

VITEBSK, 28 July (BelTA) – Scientific ideas and projects should generate fast and maximum yield, BelTA learnt from Chairman of the State Committee for Science and Technology of Belarus Igor Voitov who met with local residents at the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee. Among the attendees were inventors and entrepreneurs assimilating new technologies. According to Igor Voitov, this meeting was useful not only for him, but also for local authorities who were in attendance. “The visitors...

KORELICHI DISTRICT, 27 July (BelTA) – At least ten Belarusian flax mills will be revamped using European technologies, Prime Minister of Belarus Mikhail Myasnikovich said during a working trip to Korelichi District on 27 July, BelTA has learned. Mikhail Myasnikovich noted that big upgrade projects will be implemented at 12 to 15 flax mills. “At least ten flax mills will be equipped with European technologies,” Mikhail Myasnikovich stressed. Three flax mills in Grodno, Brest and Vitebsk...

MINSK, 27 July (BelTA) – Belgeologiya specialists have discovered a new oil deposit in Oktyabr District of Gomel Oblast, BelTA learned from Deputy Director General of the company Yaroslav Gribik. The hydrocarbon deposit was found during the testing of exploratory well Yuzhno-Vishanskaya No. 34. The oil influx is estimated at five cubic meters per day. Geologists continue drilling the well. At the same time specialists explore two more oil deposits in Svetlogorsk and Kalinkovichi districts...

VERKHNEDVINSK, 21 July (BelTA) – The Dutch company Campina is showing great interest in the Belarusian dairy industry, Agriculture and Food Minister of Belarus Mikhail Rusy told Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko during the tour to Verkhedvinsk Creamery on 21 July, BelTA has learnt. The minister noted that after Belarusian dairy products penetrated foreign markets, foreign investors took a serious interest in Belarus’ dairy industry. Campina from the Netherlands is one of them. It...

VERKHNEDVINSK, 21 July (BelTA) – Belarus will waste no whey in 2013, Minister of Agriculture and Food Mikhail Rusyi reported to President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko who is on a working trip to Vitebsk Oblast. Currently 700 tonnes of 3.5 million tonnes of whey produced in the country are left unprocessed. The minister said that in two years, absolutely 100% whey will be processed and sold as different products. Thus, dairy enterprises will operate as non-waste production facilities....