GOMEL, 16 June (BelTA) - Gomel Oblast will build warehouses for storage and sale of exported agricultural products in Kaliningrad. The agreement on this project was reached during the visit of the official delegation of the western region of Russia to Gomel Oblast. The delegation headed by the regional governor Nikolai Tsukanov comprises more than 20 people. When discussing the issues of food supply to Kaliningrad Oblast, the parties expressed the opinion that this work should be based on...

GOMEL, 16 June (BelTA) – Gomel Oblast and Russia’s Kaliningrad Oblast signed an action plan to implement the agreement on cooperation for 2012-2013 on 16 June. The document was signed by the Chairman of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee Vladimir Dvornik and Kaliningrad Governor Nikolai Tsukanov. During the negotiations that preceded the signing ceremony, both leaders agreed that the existing volume of mutual trade does not correspond to economic opportunities of the regions. In 2010...

GOMEL, 25 May (BelTA) – The Gomel Oblast Executive Committee and Russia’s company Humate have signed a letter of intent to launch the production of humates in Gomel Oblast, BelTA learned from the press service of the agriculture and food committee of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee. Humates are salts of humic acids. Water-soluble sodium and potash humates stimulate plant and animal growth, biochemical processes in plants, activate photosynthesis and carbohydrate metabolism. These...

GOMEL, 26 April (BelTA) – The 7th international festival, Land under White Wings, opens today in Mozyr, BelTA learnt from the organizing committee. The children’s forum will gather young talents from Belarus, CIS and non-CIS countries. The opening ceremony will take place at the Palace of the Mozyr Oil Refinery in the evening on 26 April. Partaking in the gala concert will be guests and prize-holders of the previous festivals. The program of the forum will include contests of young...

GOMEL, 22 April (BelTA) - A group of journalists of the NHK-Japan Broadcasting Corp. visited Gomel Oblast to film footage for a documentary about the ongoing activities to overcome the effects of radioactive contamination, BelTA learnt from the press service of the agriculture and food committee of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee. In particular, the guests from Japan visited the Chemerissky and Komarinsky agricultural enterprises in Bragin District to get acquainted with agricultural...

GOMEL, 29 March (BelTA) – An international conference, Museum and Traditional Culture of Belarus, will take place in Gomel on 17-18 May, BelTA learnt from the Gomel Palace and Park Ensemble. Attending the forum will be museum specialists and workers, representatives of the cultural departments, crafts and folk arts centers, museology and traditional culture researchers. The conference will highlight such themes as the role of the contemporary museum in preserving and updating traditional...

GOMEL, 28 March (BelTA) - Gomel Oblast is considering attracting a new investor for the investment project to develop Podkamenie and Shirokoye chalk deposits (Vetka District) and build a cement plant with the engineering, transport and social infrastructure, the chairman of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee Vladimir Dvornik told a press conference on 28 March. In May 2010, the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee and the Iranian company Azarab Ind. Co signed an investment agreement for this...

MOSCOW, 25 March (BelTA) – Gomselmash grain harvesters will be assembled in Ulyanovsk Oblast of Russia. The relevant agreement has been signed by the Belarusian mechanical engineering company Gomselmash, the Agriculture Ministry of Ulyanovsk Oblast and the Ulyanovsk-based company Agroprompark, the press service of the Ulyanovsk Oblast government told BelTA. As early as next year 50 grain harvesters are supposed to be assembled in Ulyanovsk Oblast. They will be made at premises of...

MINSK, 24 March (BelTA) – Pumped through the Odessa-Brody pipeline, Azeri Light oil variety is now at the Ukrainian pump station Brody. Mozyr Oil Refinery will get the oil in April 2011, BelTA learned from Sergei Sosnovsky, Acting Director General of Mozyr Oil Refinery. In his words, the exact date will be revealed after Belarusian Oil Company, Ukrtransnafta, Gomeltransneft Druzhba and Mozyr Oil Refinery have agreed the delivery schedule. “Oil is pumped in a routine manner now. At...

GOMEL, 22 March (BelTA) – The Quality Leaders’ Club of Central and Eastern European Countries will hold its session at the Belarusian Steel Works (BMZ trademark) in Zhlobin on 24 March, BelTA learnt from the information office of the company. Attending the session will be representatives of 15 companies from six countries, prize-winners of the International Quality Tournament of Central and Eastern Europe. The participants of the session will listen to reports, discuss the latest results...