A 60-container train with compound fertilizers made by Gomel Chemical Plant departed from Gomel to China on 31 May, BelTA has learned. The train will follow the route Tsentrolit (Belarus) - Xianguojigang (China) through the territory of Belarus and Russia via the Zabaikalsk - Manchuria border crossing. The journey will be two weeks and more than 7,000km long. "Today is a big day. We are launching the fifth train from Gomel Oblast to the People's Republic of China carrying fertilizers...

Belarus and Iran have a great potential for cooperation in the field of oil, petrochemistry and other industries, Alireza Seyhoun, the commercial attaché of the Iranian Embassy in Belarus, told the media on the sidelines of the 24th edition of the Spring in Gomel expo, BelTA has learned. Iran and Belarus in general and Gomel Oblast in particular have established good cooperation over the past 20 years, Alireza Seyhoun noted. "Iranian and Belarusian partners exchange delegations, sign...

As of 16 May, spring crops were planted on the area of 1,9855,300 hectares, which is 85.7% of the plan. Planting was done on 91.3% of the designated area in Brest Oblast, 85.4% of the area in Vitebsk Oblast, 74.2% of the area in Gomel Oblast, and 95.2% in Grodno Oblast, 87.8% in Minsk Oblast, and 81.6% in Mogilev Oblast.

GOMEL, 9 May (BelTA) – Belarusians have to recover names of all those, who fell in the name of freedom and liberation of the Motherland. There must be no unknown soldiers. Chairman of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee Ivan Krupko made the statement during a solemn rally held at the Eternal Fire in Gomel on the occasion of Victory Day, BelTA has learned. The Gomel Oblast governor reminded that about 200,000 liberators-soldiers are buried in the region after sanguinary battles....

KALINKOVICHI DISTRICT, 4 May (BelTA) – After the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) cut off funding for work at 13 sites of the Belarusian transport infrastructure, the work continued anyway. Belarusian First Deputy Transport and Communications Minister Aleksei Lyakhnovich pointed it out as a section of the M10 motorway was reopened to traffic, BelTA has learned. The section is located in Kalinkovichi District, Gomel Oblast. Overpasses over railways and a bridge had...

Prospects for stepping up and advancing cooperation between Gomel Oblast and the Russian city of Omsk were discussed as Chairman of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee Ivan Krupko met with an Omsk delegation led by the mayor Sergei Shelest on 27 April, BelTA has learned. The guests were informed about Gomel Oblast’s industrial, export, scientific, technical, and manpower potential and about the opportunities available in the Belarusian region. Ivan Krupko remarked: “For Gomel Oblast...

GOMEL, 20 April (BelTA) – Seven import-substituting projects are being implemented by enterprises of the Belarusian state food industry concern Belgospishcheprom. Deputy Prime Minister Leonid Zayats mentioned it after OAO Spartak opened a new chocolate bar line on 20 April, BelTA has learned. Leonid Zayats said that the new line commissioned by the Gomel-based company is an import-substituting one. He mentioned that Belgospishcheprom is busy implementing seven import-substituting...

As of 1 April 2023 a total of 125,056 large families have opened the deposit accounts in Belarus under the family capital program, including about 82,600 deposit accounts at the total amount of $826 million and 42,500 deposit accounts at the total amount of Br1.02 billion, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Labor and Social Security Ministry. A total of 69,347 families applied for permission to use family capital ahead of schedule. Of them, 57,877 applied to use the money to improve housing...

MINSK, 4 April (BelTA) – In 2022 Belarus increased its food export to Kaluga Oblast by almost a quarter, BelTA informs citing the Telegram channel of the Agriculture and Food Ministry. “In 2022 the trade in foodstuffs and agricultural raw materials between Belarus and Kaluga Oblast expanded by 17.2% over 2021. The export of Belarusian products rose by 23.9%, the import increased by 15.3%,” the post reads. The main exports are dairy and meat products, trees and other plants, fish...

The number of organizations with Russian capital, which are registered in Gomel Oblast, increased up to 450 in 2022, BelTA learned from Chairman of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee Ivan Krupko at a solemn assembly held in anticipation of Day of Unity of the Peoples of Belarus and Russia. Ivan Krupko said that the number of organizations with Russian capital rose to 450 in Gomel Oblast in 2022, including eight companies operating as residents of the free economic zone (FEZ) Gomel-Raton....