Food, machines, vehicles. Belarus’ products on display in Baku

MINSK, 5 May (BelTA) – Belarusian expositions have been organized at the international expos InterFood Azerbaijan and Caspian Agro Week 2026 in Baku, Azerbaijan, representatives of the BelInterExpo enterprise of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BelCCI) told BelTA.

From 5 to 8 May the Republic of Azerbaijan serves as a key meeting hub for foreign partners, business representatives, and regional delegations.

Two events are taking place simultaneously in Baku, traditionally complementing each other in terms of the covered topics and the range of exhibits on display: the 31st international food industry expo InterFood Azerbaijan and the 19th Azerbaijan international agriculture expo Caspian Agro Week. Given the global agenda, the Azerbaijani market is in high demand for the import of food products, agricultural machines, and equipment. Regional retail chains are exploring promising opportunities for supplying high-quality goods.

Formerly known as Caspian Agro, the expo has been organized under the new brand Caspian Agro Week as from 2026, combining the format of an exhibition and a forum, which gives the event new impetus and enables conditions for broader networking, cross-sectoral cooperation, and effective business dialogue for both participants and visitors.

The geography of the expos brings together over 300 companies from more than 30 countries, including Belgium, Brazil, Vietnam, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Spain, Kazakhstan, China, the USA, Türkiye, Japan, Ethiopia, the Republic of Korea, Sweden, and other ones.

Producers from Belarus are traditionally represented among the participants. A wide range of products and goods from 24 domestic producers in the food industry, mechanical engineering, and agriculture are presented within the framework of the Made in Belarus exposition and the Belarus The Taste of Nature exposition organized by BelInterExpo, a unitary enterprise of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

On the opening day Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev visited the Belarusian exposition. The high-ranking guest was made familiar with the products on display by Industry Minister Andrei Kuznetsov and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to the Republic of Azerbaijan Dmitry Pinevich.

The Belarusian state food industry concern Belgospishcheprom showcases a range of healthy food products, instant meals, baking powder, dry baking powders, and breading mixes with spices. Belarusian enterprises also presented chocolate, candies, cookies, wafers and wafer rolls, marshmallows, pastille and marmalade products, gift sets of confectionery products as well as instant soups and noodles, soups that do not require cooking, kissel, jelly, spices and seasonings, assorted porridges, cereals, snacks, baking ingredients, and much more.

A block of dessert and alcoholic beverages is also presented as part of InterFood Azerbaijan and as part of Caspian Agro Week.

A range of sausages, smoked meats, canned products, beef on the bone, boneless beef, beef by-products, and assorted porridges are displayed by a number of domestic companies: Volkovysk Meat-Processing Plant, Mogilev Meat-Processing Plant, Slonim Meat Plant, and Grodno Meat Plant.

One of the largest Belarusian producers of dairy products – OAO Babushkina Krynka, the managing company of the holding company Mogilev Dairy Company Babushkina Krynka – is present at the expo. The company offers milk, kefir, sour cream, cottage cheese, cream, yogurts, glazed cheese curds, ice cream as well as hard and semi-hard cheeses, butter, skimmed milk powder, and mayonnaise. Apart from that, a number of other dairy producers showcase hard and semi-hard cheeses, butter, dry dairy products (whey), whole milk products, including cottage cheese, milk, sour cream, mayonnaise, ice cream, and other products.

Within the framework of the InterFood Azerbaijan and Caspian Agro Week expos, flagships of Belarusian mechanical engineering showcase their products: MAZ – the managing company of the holding company BelavtoMAZ, Gomselmash, and the managing company of the holding company Bobruiskagromash. The range includes more than 500 models, including dump trucks, tractor-trailers, flatbed trucks, chassis, timber trucks, buses, and trolleybuses.

For agriculture grain harvesters, forage harvesters, corn pickers, self-propelled mowers, machinery systems based on universal power units, attachments and equipment for fertilizer application, fodder harvesting, roll transportation as well as tractor trailers and animal husbandry industry machines are offered.

The participation of Belarusian producers in the international expos InterFood Azerbaijan and Caspian Agro Week makes it possible to expand opportunities for establishing interregional and international cooperation, including in terms of planning joint projects and collaboration.