All natural and high quality

Belagro: there is something to show the world

Daria Titova

The China-Belarus Industrial Park Great Stone hosted the 33rd edition of the international specialised exhibition Belagro 2023. It is considered another national brand, and no wonder: this is a platform where everything that the Belarusian land is glorious and the strength of its agricultural complex is presented. This is a unique and powerful agricultural machinery, natural, high-quality food, breeding stock and much more. Belagro provides an opportunity to learn more about innovative scientific developments, advanced technologies used in production and ensuring the Belarusian agro-industrial complex reaches a qualitatively new level.

Daria Titova

Pattern for partners

The situation with food security in the world can be called consistently alarming. The number of hungry in 2021 exceeded 820 million people (88 times the population of our country). For the sake of the interests of individual states, the global supply chains of products, raw materials, and components for many types of economic activity are being disrupted. Countries that once abandoned their own agricultural production have no choice but to turn into markets for imported products. These and many other factors are pushing up consumer food prices, even though, as FAO experts predicted, eight years ago the world could have ended hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition. 
Our Belarus was able to fulfil, and much earlier, the task set: for decades we have been fully ensuring food security on the basis of our own production, increasing, despite the intrigues of foreign enemies, our export potential, and successfully resisting sanctions pressure. Today, Belarusian products are successfully exported to 100 countries of the
world, and their quality is undeniable. The level of production of basic products per capita in Belarus significantly exceeds the indicators achieved by our partners in the EAEU.
Last year, the country reached a record high in terms of the supply of food products and agricultural raw materials to the foreign market — $8.3 billion, which is 24 percent more than in 2021. Agriculture provided a significant increase in gross output in comparable prices — 3.6 percent.
Thanks to the balanced policy of the Head of State, the active introduction of the latest scientific achievements, the support of farms, the development of large-scale production, and, most importantly, the hard work of the villagers, we managed to achieve what we wanted.

All flags visit us

For several decades, Belarus has done the seemingly impossible: the industry’s equipment with its own equipment has grown from 13 to 87 percent, and agronomists, engineers, and machine operators are increasingly using digital technologies in their work.
The China-Belarus Industrial Park Great Stone is a convenient platform for such a large-scale exhibition. This year, the exposition area expanded to 28.6 thousand square metres: 450 companies from Belarus, Russia, China, Pakistan, Türkiye, Vietnam, Germany, Italy, India, and Palestine took part. 14 Russian regions presented their expositions. The exhibition was attended by delegations from 16 countries, including Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Mongolia.
The greatest interest of visitors from year to year is attracted by a large-scale exposition of domestic agricultural machinery — in addition to the latest machinery and equipment, advanced developments were presented that are not inferior in many characteristics to foreign counterparts. 

Seeds of development and success

In an exclusive interview with our journalists on the eve of Belagro 2023, Deputy Prime Minister Leonid Zayats emphasised that
 this year the task is to ensure the planned volumes of grain production — at least 9 million tonnes, rapeseed oil seeds — 1 million, sugar beet — 5 million, potatoes —  1.1 million tonnes, vegetables — 610 thousand tonnes, flax fibre —  55 thousand tonnes. A powerful backlog has been created to achieve the planned plans.
One of the most important components of a record harvest is high-quality seeds. Last year, about 120 varieties of agricultural plants bred by the Scientific and Practical Centre of the National Academy of Sciences for Agriculture were cultivated on the fields of agricultural enterprises, and they occupied more than 80 percent of the sown area, and for winter rye, oats, fodder barley, buckwheat, spring wheat and lupine exceeded 90.
A huge contribution to the production of agricultural products is made by scientists and other scientific organisations of the Department of Agrarian Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, institutions of higher agricultural education. The obligatory participant of Belagro is BNBC. The interest of foreign partners is justified. This is the most unique project in the CIS for deep processing of grain.

   More than 100 Belarusian producers presented a wide range of their products: sausages, semi-finished meat products, poultry, dairy products, canned food, groceries, baby and diet food, bakery products and much more.
The Agriculture and Food Ministry emphasises that the meat industry has made significant progress in recent years. The assortment of the meat industry is a thousand items. Belarus is one of the top 15 world exporters of poultry meat, beef and sausages. The main buyers of Belarusian meat products are Russia and other CIS countries, China, Vietnam, the United Arab Emirates, African countries. Belarus is also in the top five largest exporters of dairy products, which today can be found on the shelves of supermarkets in almost 50 countries of the world. The share of dairy products in the export of food products exceeds 40 percent. They produce more than 1800 types of dairy products. For example, cheeses are in no way inferior in taste and quality to well-known world brands.
And it all starts with the village, those same dairy farms and complexes. By the way, animal husbandry has recently shown a positive trend.
As part of Belagro, demonstration shows of breeding horses from leading horse breeding farms, sheep of various breeds were held. Considerable attention is paid to the business program. About two dozen conferences and seminars are planned, the topics of which cover the entire spectrum of issues related to the agro-industrial complex. 

Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of the organising committee of the international specialised exhibition Belagro 2023 Leonid Zayats,
“In recent years, the country has achieved significant results in agriculture, which made it possible to ensure food security. Moreover, today we are one of the main food exporters in the world. Exports of foodstuffs and agricultural raw materials in 2022 reached a record high of $8.3 billion. We are not going to stop there, there are enough reserves.”

By Diana Bernikovich