Belarus plans to increase food exports to $ 6 billion in 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 STV TV channel, BelTA informs. "This year, we plan to approach the level of $ 6 billion in food exports, according to our plans, by 2025 we should reach export supplies 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. To this end, we attract both domestic investment and investors from the 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 meat farms. As for the sales markets that are promising for Belarus, according to Aleksey Bogdanov, domestic ...