MOSTY, 2 November (BelTA) – Grodno Oblast has achieved great successes, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said at a ceremony to honor agricultural workers at the Dazhynki 2024 festival in the town of Mosty on 2 November, BelTA has learned.
"Grodno Oblast, being one of the agricultural leaders, is progressively moving forward in all areas," the head of state stated. "More than 2.2 million tonnes of grain and leguminous crops, the Belarusian ‘gold’, that the region has harvested this year are impressive."
Traditionally, the region comes out on top in terms of yield. 54 centners per hectare is strikingly different from 32 centners per hectare in the 1990s. Moreover, there are farms where the yield is over 100 centners per hectare. These are agricultural enterprises of Grodno Oblast: V.I. Kremko, Svisloch and Grodnensky.
"It is time to aim higher and move towards 2.5 million tonnes of threshing," Aleksandr Lukashenko said. “The region has everything for this. We need to add responsibility and organization."
The president noted that the current results of Grodno Oblast are not accidental. The region has been good at planning since Soviet times. It complies with technology, continuously assimilates advanced methods and work. The region, for example, started cultivating the so-called intermediate crops and "northern soybeans" - white lupine. Therefore, the milk yield is excellent. This year is is expected to exceed 7,500kg per cow. The milk is mostly extra grade. It is not for nothing that Grodno Oblast is the only region in the country that produces dry milk formulas for children.
"We are now trying to implement many, many projects as part of the One District, One Project program. We invest a lot of money and sometimes take on projects where we do not have competencies. We are learning the ropes in terms of many things. Sometimes we do not know whether we will be able to sell what we produce or not. Meanwhile milk formula, baby milk (I was in southern Africa, I traveled all over the world) sell well anywhere. There is nothing to feed children with in many places of the world. So why are we inventing the wheel? Let's build another plant and produce even better infant formula," the head of state suggested.
According to him, this applies to many areas, including wood processing. “There is a great demand for timber products internationally. This is what we dreamed of. I have always said that the time would come and it would be selling well,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said.
“It is good that on the back of all the achievements the quality of life is improving (maybe not as fact since we have become competitors to others and they start strangling us). This is the main principle of our welfare state, the state for the people,” the president stressed. “Any production successes, be it in agriculture or industry, should be aimed at improving the lives of our people.”
In terms of wages, Grodno Oblast is closing on the capital city and Minsk Oblast. According to the president, it has the potential to catch up with them.
The head of state noted that it was in Grodno Oblast that the era of peaceful atom began in Belarus. The country’s nuclear power plant was built and put into operation. Ostrovets, where it is located, has become a district center of the future. In terms of its infrastructure and capabilities, it is a model that others can look up to.
"Your town has become strikingly prettier and is completely different from what it was in 1997 as it hosted the second national Dazhynki festival,” the president continued. “Locals poetically call Mosty a little Paris. You are mistaken, believe me. Today Mosty is more attractive than Paris. Broken shop windows, burned cars, bedbugs, crime, migrants all around the place… That was we saw in the reports from the Olympic Games. The dirty Seine River is no match for our majestic full-flowing Neman. Especially around of Mosty that is home to the country’s largest suspension bridge."
"Grodno Oblast, being one of the agricultural leaders, is progressively moving forward in all areas," the head of state stated. "More than 2.2 million tonnes of grain and leguminous crops, the Belarusian ‘gold’, that the region has harvested this year are impressive."
Traditionally, the region comes out on top in terms of yield. 54 centners per hectare is strikingly different from 32 centners per hectare in the 1990s. Moreover, there are farms where the yield is over 100 centners per hectare. These are agricultural enterprises of Grodno Oblast: V.I. Kremko, Svisloch and Grodnensky.
"It is time to aim higher and move towards 2.5 million tonnes of threshing," Aleksandr Lukashenko said. “The region has everything for this. We need to add responsibility and organization."
The president noted that the current results of Grodno Oblast are not accidental. The region has been good at planning since Soviet times. It complies with technology, continuously assimilates advanced methods and work. The region, for example, started cultivating the so-called intermediate crops and "northern soybeans" - white lupine. Therefore, the milk yield is excellent. This year is is expected to exceed 7,500kg per cow. The milk is mostly extra grade. It is not for nothing that Grodno Oblast is the only region in the country that produces dry milk formulas for children.
"We are now trying to implement many, many projects as part of the One District, One Project program. We invest a lot of money and sometimes take on projects where we do not have competencies. We are learning the ropes in terms of many things. Sometimes we do not know whether we will be able to sell what we produce or not. Meanwhile milk formula, baby milk (I was in southern Africa, I traveled all over the world) sell well anywhere. There is nothing to feed children with in many places of the world. So why are we inventing the wheel? Let's build another plant and produce even better infant formula," the head of state suggested.
According to him, this applies to many areas, including wood processing. “There is a great demand for timber products internationally. This is what we dreamed of. I have always said that the time would come and it would be selling well,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said.
“It is good that on the back of all the achievements the quality of life is improving (maybe not as fact since we have become competitors to others and they start strangling us). This is the main principle of our welfare state, the state for the people,” the president stressed. “Any production successes, be it in agriculture or industry, should be aimed at improving the lives of our people.”
In terms of wages, Grodno Oblast is closing on the capital city and Minsk Oblast. According to the president, it has the potential to catch up with them.
The head of state noted that it was in Grodno Oblast that the era of peaceful atom began in Belarus. The country’s nuclear power plant was built and put into operation. Ostrovets, where it is located, has become a district center of the future. In terms of its infrastructure and capabilities, it is a model that others can look up to.
"Your town has become strikingly prettier and is completely different from what it was in 1997 as it hosted the second national Dazhynki festival,” the president continued. “Locals poetically call Mosty a little Paris. You are mistaken, believe me. Today Mosty is more attractive than Paris. Broken shop windows, burned cars, bedbugs, crime, migrants all around the place… That was we saw in the reports from the Olympic Games. The dirty Seine River is no match for our majestic full-flowing Neman. Especially around of Mosty that is home to the country’s largest suspension bridge."
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