POLOTSK, 8 November (BelTA) – It is necessary to make up minds about a strategy designed to develop Vitebsk Oblast and primarily its agribusiness complex. Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko gave the relevant instructions when he arrived in the city of Polotsk on 8 November, BelTA has learned.
“What are we going to do with Vitebsk Oblast or in Vitebsk Oblast?” Aleksandr Lukashenko asked civil servants and primarily the agriculture and food minister upon arriving in the city. “I’d like to warn you: if the current president remains in place, then in March you, the president’s aides, who are responsible for the oblast, and the oblast governor will tell me every little detail of what we will do about Vitebsk Oblast. Despite the festive occasion I can say that Vitebsk Oblast works poorly.”
“People should live and work here. They should find their place here and their wages,” Aleksandr Lukashenko stressed. “There is no order, no discipline, no responsibility. Terrible. It is necessary to make decisions on everything: what field, what forage stock for a farm or a complex. But conditions for people at this complex or the farm should be good.”
The head of state warned civil servants not to even try to whitewash the situation: tilling standards are low, autumn plowing is not getting done, losses of cereals are colossal.
“We need intensive agriculture. We don’t need extensive agriculture that relies on more land,” the president pointed out. “As long as you can see the soil, until the soil is covered with snow, fly from above, from the bottom, from the left and right. Look and think what we should do. But you will be held responsible for the experiment you’ve been conducting in Vitebsk Oblast since Sherstnev’s time.”
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