Belarus plans to increase food exports to $ 6 billion in 2021

11.04.2021. Belarus plans to increase food exports to $ 6 billion in 2021, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food Alexei Bogdanov said in an interview with the Nedelya program on the Belarusian STV TV channel. "This year we plan to approach the level of $ 6 billion in food exports, according to our plans, by 2025 we should reach export deliveries in the amount of $ 7 billion, and this will be done by increasing production. For example, last year we produced 7 , 8 million tons of milk, and by 2025 we plan to produce 9.2 million tons, we produce 1.26 million tons of meat of all types - we plan to produce 1.5 million tons by 2025. For this we attract both domestic investment and investors from outside, "the deputy minister said.

According to him, negotiations are currently underway with Chinese companies that are interested in investing in the construction of dairy farms and beef farms.

As for the sales markets that are promising for Belarus, according to Aleksey Bogdanov, domestic food producers are interested in the Asian market led by China. “We are actively working with China, and according to the results of last year, China took the third place among all buyers of Belarusian food after Russia and Kazakhstan, overtaking Ukraine. We want in these regions not only to increase supply volumes, but to expand the range and range of products. the Algerian market is interesting, because today it is number one in the import of dry dairy products, and in recent years we have been actively engaged in the certification of products for the supply of milk there, "the deputy head of the department said.

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