GOMEL, 21 September (BelTA) – A Belarusian harvester KZS-1218 has demonstrated the maximum yield of cereals in Russia’s Rostov Oblast this season, BelTA learned from Vasily Kozlov, Deputy Director of the Regional Sales Department at the Belarusian mechanical engineering company Gomselmash. The executive took part in the ceremony held to honor the best agricultural machinery operators in Rostov Oblast. According to the source, the Gomselmash harvester gathered in over 4,500 tonnes of grain...

Nearly 10,000 foreigners visited health resorts of the Gomel Oblast in January-June 2017, BelTA learned from the Belarusian national center of health resort treatment and recuperation. Regional health resorts provided almost Br7.4 million worth of services to citizens of CIS and non-CIS states. Health resorts Pridneprovsky, Chenki, and Serebryanye Klyuchi (Silver Springs) were the major exporters of health services. Another one, Mashinostroitel has been rapidly boosting the export of...

MINSK, 1 June (BelTA) – The modernization of Belarusian oil refineries will be finished in 2019. The deadline was set as a result of the government conference called by the head of state on 1 June to discuss the strategy for developing the Belarusian oil processing industry, BelTA learned from Igor Lyashenko, Chairman of the Belarusian state petrochemical concern Belneftekhim. The implementation of investment projects at the Naftan oil refinery and Mozyr Oil Refinery was discussed in...

MINSK, 16 May (BelTA) – The Belarusian company OAO Gomeltransneft Druzhba and the Ukrainian company PAO Ukrtransnafta intend to sign an agreement on cooperation and interaction with a view to effectively using the system of long-distance oil pipelines Druzhba, in particular, the Mozyr-Brody section, representatives of the Belarusian state petrochemical concern Belneftekhim told BelTA. The agreement will stipulate technical and legal aspects of relations between the two companies, which...

GOMEL, 28 April (BelTA) – The Belarusian agricultural machinery engineering company Gomselmash is busy testing the grain harvester KZS-575 in Sudan, BelTA learned from representatives of Gomselmash’s non-CIS sales division. The agreement on arranging the test was reached during the Belarusian-Sudanese business forum in Sudan’s capital in January 2017 when the Belarus president visited the country. Sudan is located in the northeastern part of Africa. Sorghum is one of the staple...

GOMEL, 31 March (BelTA) – In 2016, the trade between Belarus and Russia’s Bryansk Oblast went up by 14% as against 2015, Bryansk Oblast Deputy Governor Mikhail Kobozev told reporters as he attended the celebrations of the Day of Unity of Peoples of Belarus and Russia in Gomel on 31 March, BelTA has learned. Mikhail Kobozev noted that Bryansk Oblast and Belarus have established strong and reliable relations. Despite the economic difficulties, they managed to increase the trade by 14%....

GOMEL, 24 February (BelTA) – Belarus’ general economic policy is aimed at making the cost of building 1m2 of housing to be equal to the average salary for all population categories by 2020. Prime Minister of Belarus Andrei Kobyakov made the statement while on a working trip to Gomel Oblast on 24 February, BelTA has learned. In Gomel Oblast Andrei Kobyakov was made familiar with the operation of the Gomel integrated home-building factory. He was told what measures are being taken to...

GOMEL, 2 February (BelTA) – The Belarusian agricultural machinery engineering company Gomselmash has started exporting the grain harvesters KZS-1624-1 (Palesse GS16). The harvester boasts the highest performance among the Gomselmash harvesters, BelTA learned from Vasily Kozlov, Head of the Office for Sales in Central Russia at Gomselmash. The Palesse GS16 harvester can harvest fields with the crop yield of up to 120 centners per hectare. The harvesters were made for Russia’s...

GOMEL, 20 January (BelTA) – The Belarusian-Russian joint venture ZAO Bryanskselmash intends to occupy up to 50% of the Russian market of harvesters within the next few years. The ambitious plans were revealed by the company’s Director General Valery Suleyev at a press conference for Russian and Belarusian mass media in Bryansk, BelTA has learned. As a result of hard work in 2016 Bryanskselmash already occupies over half of the harvester market in Russia’s Orenburg Oblast, Ulyanovsk...

GOMEL, 5 January (BelTA) – The Belarusian mechanical engineering company Gomselmash will make the first batch of ear corn harvesters Palesse MS6 in 2017, BelTA learned from Sergei Fedorovich, Chief Designer of the company’s harvester engineering division. The Palesse MS6 harvester is designed to gather in ear corn in the fields meant to produce corn seeds. The harvester will process six rows at once due to peculiarities of growing hybrid corn for seeds. According to the source,...