Agrarian exports of Belarus increased by 4.3% in 2020 - Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Belarus
Published Feb 9, 2021
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Belarus' exports of agricultural products and food products in 2020 increased by 4.3% and exceeded $ 5.8 billion. This was announced on Monday by the head of the main department of foreign economic activity of the Belarusian Ministry of Agriculture Alexei Bogdanov, BelTA agency reports. Foreign exchange earnings of the Belarusian agricultural sector in 2020 increased by $ 240.2 million. As before, the bulk of agricultural exports is made up of products from the meat and dairy industries.
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At the end of 2020, deliveries from Belarus abroad of dairy products increased by 2.7% to $ 2.4 billion, meat products - by 4.9%, to $ 972.8 million. "Belarusian agricultural products and food products in 2020 were supplied to 116 countries of the world," Bogdanov said. According to him, Belarusian producers opened 20 new markets for themselves last year. Deliveries to Kuwait, Nepal, Algeria, Madagascar, Morocco, Paraguay, Ireland, Cyprus, Malta, Portugal and Croatia began. The share of Russia in Belarusian agricultural exports in 2020 decreased to 74.4% of the total volume compared to 78% a year earlier. In monetary terms, the volume of supplies of agricultural products and food products from Belarus to Russia amounted to $ 4.3 billion, this figure decreased by 2.6% compared to the level of 2019. The share of the CIS countries (excluding Russia) in Belarusian agricultural exports increased by 1.9 percentage points, to 11.8%. The volume of supplies to these countries in monetary ...
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