(Updated at 13:55)
SOLIGORSK, 3 October (BelTA) – Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko reviewed the development of the country’s poultry industry during a working trip to Soligorsk District on 3 October, BelTA has learned.
The head of state visited the Soligorsk Poultry Farm, where he was briefed on the enterprise’s financial and economic performance. The agenda also included the implementation of an investment project to establish a breeding and genetics center for the poultry industry.
During the visit to the enterprise, Aleksandr Lukashenko toured a quail farm and learn about the technologies used to maintain an industrial flock of quails.
At the Soligorsk Poultry Farm, a project has been implemented to create an innovative closed‑cycle quail farm with automated egg collection and packaging. This is a unique project for Belarus. Once the farm reaches its design capacity, it is expected to produce at least 200 million quail eggs annually, increasing the country’s output of this product by 1.8 times.
As part of the program developed for selective breeding and the production of high‑quality quail stock, the new site of the quail farm achieved strong productivity results in 2025.
The Soligorsk Poultry Farm is an investment‑driven enterprise. The company has begun renovating one of its four existing poultry houses. Two major innovative projects are currently at the design stage: the creation of a breeding and genetics center for quail and the construction of a facility for processing quail eggs.
In general, the enterprise produces chicken and quail eggs, as well as poultry meat for sale.
Nationwide, the poultry industry’s production base includes 38 agricultural organizations, comprising 20 broiler farms and 18 egg farms. Of these, 12 are privately owned. Belarus has achieved a self‑sufficiency level of 158% for poultry meat and 126% for eggs, with surplus production exported.
In 2024, Belarusian organizations exported poultry meat worth $477.2 million (up by 12% compared to 2023) and chicken eggs worth $70.9 million (up by 30.2%). The bulk of poultry meat exports went to Russia and China.
In order to further develop the sector, Belarus is pursuing investment projects aimed at building new facilities and modernizing existing ones. In 2025, leading poultry farms are carrying out seven such projects.
To ensure egg‑producing farms are supplied with domestic breeding stock, a project to establish a poultry breeding and genetics center is underway at Agrokombinat Dzerzhinsky. Looking ahead, plans also include facilities for maintaining a parent flock of laying hens at the Soligorsk Poultry Farm and a parent flock of turkeys at Agrokombinat Dzerzhinsky.
Scientific support for poultry farming in Belarus is provided by the Experimental Poultry Research Station. An important area of its work is the development of feed based on domestic raw materials, which helps reduce feeding costs and improve feed efficiency. Cooperation has also been established with the Belarusian National Biotechnology Corporation (BNBC).
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