Belarusian agricultural workers have harvested sugar beets on the area of 36,200 hectares (43.9% of the plan), BelTA learned from the updates posted by the Agriculture and Food Ministry. As of 13 October, 1.628 million tonnes of sugar beets were harvested. The yield was 450.1 centners per hectare with the sugar content at 16.01%. Potatoes were harvested on the area of 22,300 hectares or 88.8% of the plan. Some 635,300 tonnes of potatoes were cropped. As far as other vegetables are...

The Belarusian company OAO Mogilevliftmash and the Moscow-based company OOO PO MLM Vozduhotehnika have signed a protocol of intent on jointly producing lift machines, the press service of the Belarusian embassy in Russia told BelTA. The project is of strategic importance for both companies because it continues the import substitution policy by leveraging manufacturing cooperation capabilities of Mogilevliftmash and Vozduhotehnika. Mogilevliftmash can make 22,000-24,000 lift machines per...

Belarus’ Mogilev Oblast and Russia’s Primorsky Krai are set to increase trade, BelTA learned from the website of the Mogilev Oblast Executive Committee following the meeting of the governors of the two regions. Mogilev Oblast Governor Leonid Zayats emphasized the prospects of cooperative ties. “United, we could produce a new in-demand product with the planning of supplies to other markets, for instance, the Chinese market,” he said. In his turn, Primorsky Krai Governor Oleg...