The sectors of the Belarusian economy affected by the global epidemiological situation will receive support. Specific measures are defined by the decree signed by the President today.
Economy
The Belarusian timber is sent to Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Fifteen hundred cubic meters are exported every month.
The draft decree on forest management and timber sales was introduced to the President. The Vice Prime Ministers, the Minister of Forestry, and the Head of State Control were invited to the conversation.
The trees coped with the frost. Peaches, apricots, and cherries can ripen easily. Scientists at the Academy of Sciences breed new sorts of tomatoes and onions.
Minsk City Technology Park gets new residents. A new production building will be commissioned in summer. Companies receive not only workshops and offices, but the main thing is administrative support from the city.
The SPC of the Academy of Sciences for Potato and Vegetable reported the optimal time is a week and a half. Potatoes can be grown with purple and pink pulp both in household or on industrial scale.
Masks of Orsha flax are produced in Japan in Ishikawa Prefecture. Flax materials are more hygienic as compared to others, due to the natural antibacterial characteristics.
Gas issues will be discussed today at an extraordinary meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council, which will be held in a video conference format.
Seeds are carefully prepared so that they can cope with any vagaries of the weather. As a result, they receive a kind of immunity from all diseases.
The President of Belarus instructed farmers and the relevant Ministry to increase buckwheat production in our country in order not to depend on external supplies in the future and have our own strategic stock.
It’s planned to create a leather holding, aiming at making industry enterprises profitable. The effectiveness of these organizations is low, as Prime Minister Sergei Rumas stated at the Presidium of the Council of Ministers.
The park residents come from 16 countries. It is planned that half of the enterprises will start production this year. There are now two dozen on this list.
The second plan of five-year development has been adopted in the Great Stone Chinese-Belarusian Industrial Park. The first is being completed this year.
Bobruisk-based Slavyanka company completely switched to a new type of products under an agreement with partners from Finland, Sweden and Poland.
This was reported ny the head of the park administration Alexander Yaroshenko. Along with the attraction of new investors and residents now they are actively working to complete the construction of an innovative technology park.
In Belarus, more and more sewing industries are temporarily changing profiles this spring. The shops of the fashion center have suspended sewing of the new collection - now thousands of protective masks are produced there every day.
Videoconference with the UN Resident Coordinator in Belarus Belarus is taking all necessary measures to minimize the consequences of the pandemic, said Chairperson of the Council of the Republic of Belarus Natalia Kochanova at today's videoconference with the UN Resident Coordinator in Belarus Joanna Kazana-Wisniowiecki.
The five chambers of commerce and industry will develop general measures to stimulate economic stability in the EEU. The initiative was supported by the chairman of the board of the Eurasian Economic Commission, Mikhail Myasnikovich.
This was told by Minister Maxim Yermolovich. The work on attracting resources from the Eurasian Development Bank and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is at an active stage.
The Ministry of Finance of Belarus does not expect any negative development of the situation with budget execution due to the coronavirus.
Monitoring of the situation in the light industry is continued by the Presidential Administration. Today the head of the political headquarters Igor Sergeyenko visited Belkredo enterprise in Novogrudok and personally assessed the volume of products manufactured.
Our country is interested in providing credit resources of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, according to First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Krutoy in a video conference with the Vice President of this financial structure.
How does the main integration of Eurasia work in the new economic reality? Yesterday, the leaders of the EEU discussed the main challenges of the COVID-19 epidemic in a teleconference format.
The meeting provided for prompt resolution of acute issues in the key areas for the Union: economic, political, social and humanitarian problems.












