MINSK, 16 April (BelTA) – The Belarusian food industry concern Belgospishcheprom is considering food supplies to Zimbabwe, BelTA learned from the press service of Belgospishcheprom following a meeting of the working group on agriculture in Zimbabwe, which was attended by Belgospishcheprom Deputy Chairman Aleksandr Yakovchits.
The meeting considered new areas for further expansion of cooperation between the two countries, promising projects in agriculture, and expansion of the legal framework.
“The enterprise I represent is one of the main producers of food products in Belarus. We produce confectionery products, alcohol, beer, canned food, vegetable oil, and many more. We successfully work with the African continent, exporting our products to Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Morocco, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, and South Africa. We sell sugar, malt, beet pulp and rapeseed oil. We are certainly interested in the promising and developing market of Zimbabwe. According to our information, you imported about 160,000 tonnes of soybean oil in 2023. We can offer you an analogue. Rapeseed oil is one of the three most consumed vegetable oils worldwide. Rapeseed oil is superior to olive oil in terms of its quality composition. Last year we shipped 44,000 tonnes of rapeseed oil to 20 countries, including South Africa and Ethiopia. We are ready to offer our oil both for retail chains and for the education, healthcare and military systems,” Aleksandr Yakovchits said.
Confectionery products of Belgospishcheprom's enterprises were shipped to 18 countries in 2024. Those were mainly CIS, European and Asian countries. “We have no experience in supplying confectionery products to the African continent yet, but we are sure that it may interest you. I am ready to hand over our product catalogs and commercial offers to the interested party. A meeting with business representatives interested in buying food products would be of particular importance,” the Belgospishcheprom deputy chairman said.
As for the supply of fruit concentrates and purees for use in the food industry, the parties expressed interest in working out the procurement of certain types of semi-finished products from raw materials that do not grow in Belarus and are in demand by Belarusian canning enterprises at the Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange. The invitation to participate in the auction was handed over to the Zimbabwean side. It contains detailed information on the range of raw materials and semi-finished products in demand, quality and volume requirements.
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