OREANDA-NEWS. August 29, 2007. The imports of fodder grain for cattle breeding and battery farms will be minimum in 2007, Vice-Premier Ivan Bambiza stated during a session of the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs, reported the Official website http://www.government.by. 

According to him, the harvest Belarus has grown this year is big enough to satisfy the needs of large cattle breeding farms and battery farms. At the same time he required that the final grain balance should be made as soon as possible and the proposals on making mixed fodder and premixes cheaper be submitted. The Vice-Premier instructed the scientific-practical centre in cattle breeding of the National Academy of Sciences to present the feasibility study on changing the structure of fodder crops and on substituting of the imports of protein-vitamin additives and premixes. “We should make sure that the Negoreloye and Mogilev bakery plants which also manufacture premixes and additives operate at full capacity,” Ivan Bambiza said.

In line with the schedule coordinated with the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs of Belarus starting from September 1 the Belarusian sugar refineries should start receiving sugar beet grown this year, Vice Premier of Belarus Ivan Bambiza said today during a meeting of the collegium of the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs.

According to him, the Belarusian agricultural companies were to start harvesting sugar beet on August 27-28. However, they did not do it. Sugar refineries stimulate the first sugar beet supplies by higher purchasing prices. For example, on September 1-10 purchasing prices for sugar beet were raised by 20%; in consecutive days – by 10% and after that sugar beet will be purchased at the state prices.

This year the Government has drawn up concrete schedules of deliveries of sugar beet to the sugar refineries, Ivan Bambiza underlined. According to specialists of the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs, this year’s harvest of sugar beet is expected to make up 4.2 million tons, up by 300 thousand tons on 2006. The Belarusian sugar refineries can process up to three million tons.