BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

24/08/2007

Belarus: country prepares for winter

Warsaw - For the interseasonal period 2007-2008, Belarus plans to prepare about 21 thousand MT of vegetables and 24 thousand MT of potatoes to supply the needs of inhabitants of Minsk. This information was presented by the chairman of Minsk city executive committee Mikhail Pavlov at the special conference concerning 2007 harvest. For the interseasonal period Minsk administration want to prepare reserves of 1,75 thousand MT of meat, 24 thousand MT of potatoes, and 21 thousand MT of vegetables, including 4 thousand MT of beet root, 6,5 thousand MT of carrot, 8 thousand MT of cabbage, 2,5 thousand MT of onion and about 1 thousand MT of apples.

Moreover, the administration wants to order about 1 thousand MT of animal oil, 0,2 thousand MT of cheese, 3,5 thousand MT of the dry degreased milk. It is planned that practically the entire volume of production will be supply by domestic production from the Minsk region. M. Pavlov noted that city administration "will take all measures to avoid the scarcity of agricultural production on the consumer market". At the same time, he noted that the most of the problems will concern vegetables, because of its deficiency from domestic production.

Every year the consumption of vegetables in the city of Minsk increases by 7%, and even more in case of the valuable forms of vegetables - sweet pepper, asparagus, bean, cauliflower, eggplants, spinach. At the same time, buyer demand is ensured in essence due to the import, although climatic conditions make it possible to organize cultivation in the republic, added M. Pavlov.

Source:

http://www.freshplaza.com/news_detail.asp?id=6435