BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

12/08/2009

Belarus decreased flour products output by 0.2%

During January-July period of 2009, enterprises of the bakery department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Belarus produced 390.200 tonnes of flour products, a decrease of 0.2% compared to the same period in the previous year.

Belarus produced 388.900 tonnes of flour, down 0.2% compared to January-July period of 2008, including 256.900 tonnes of wheat flour (up 10.5%), 127.700 tonnes of rye flour (down 17.3%). Production of flour from oats lowered by 7.3% to 595 tonnes, flour from barley output increased by 2.8 times to 1.434 tonnes and flour from buckwheat - by 25 times to 25 tonnes.

During the period, composite flour production volumes (based on wheat flour) totaled 850 tonnes, down 3.7% compared to the previous year, according to the department.

During the first seven months of 2009, Belarus produced 38.5 thsd tonnes of packaged flour, up 4.8% compared to January-July of the last year.

The bakery department owns 16 flour production enterprises.

Source:

http://www.agrimarket.info/showart.php?id=80974

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