BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

20/07/2006

Grain harvest will be about 6 mln tonnes - Belarus

This year grain harvest is expected to total about 6 mln tonnes against 6.4 mln tonnes last year in Belarus. This forecast was reported by the first Deputy-Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic, Nadezhda Kotkovets.

She informed that this year the government was going to have grain harvest at 7 mln tonnes. But due to unfavourable weather conditions (heat) it will be less.

Talking about cooperation with Russian in the area of agribusiness Deputy-Minister hoped that Belarusian agricultural production could be sold on the Russian market where 80% of the whole export potential of the Republic is concentrated.

Source:

http://www.agrimarket.info/showart.php?id=37866

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