MARCH: Belarus is provided with food, imports do not matter much for market saturation
March 23, Minsk / Corr. BELTA/. Belarus is provided with food, imports are not of great importance for the saturation of the market. Minister of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade Aleksey Bogdanov told journalists about this at the IV Republican case “Development of Entrepreneurship in Belarus: Consolidation, Strategy and Tactics”, which is being held at the National Library, BelTA has learned.
“Belarus, in terms of the consumer group of goods, has a large volume of imports, mostly not available. The whole policy, which was carried out during all the years of the country’s independence, was aimed at ensuring that citizens by their own efforts. This successful policy has led to the fact that today we are visible in the post-Soviet space for the export of food products, so most of the research part of the imports did not appear on our shelf,” Alexei Bogdanov.
According to him, there is an active work on import substitution. “There are quite a lot of directions, we are working on monitoring. In particular, vegetable growing – vegetables in greenhouses, under conditions, category “fresh”. This direction is the most interesting for our producers, primarily farmers and agricultural producers, since we used to import these goods in a fairly large volume, especially during the off-season. Therefore, great opportunities are opening up for business, and there is economic interest,” the minister explained.
Belarusian Entrepreneurship Week runs from 21 to 27 March. A busy business program is planned for the week, including more than 150 events throughout the country. The key event of the Belarusian Entrepreneurship Week was the IV Republican Business Forum “Development of Entrepreneurship in Belarus: Consolidation. Strategy and Tactics”. During the forum, a solemn ceremony of awarding the winners of the 14th republican contest “The Best City (District, Region) of Belarus for Business” took place. The results of measuring the 17th index of business optimism, topical problems of the Belarusian business will be received.