OREANDA-NEWS. April 17, 2009. JSC Belagroprombank jointly with the Italian company Agrotecnica s.r.l. held a workshop on perspectives of cooperation development between Italian companies and enterprises of the Republic of Belarus in the agricultural production sector, reported the press-centre of Belagroprombank.

One of the priority lines of business of JSC Belagroprombank is cooperation with leading Italian financial institutions in financing of trade projects of economic entities of the Republic of Belarus.  Taking into the account the importance of maintaining and extending opportunities for business cooperation between Italian and Belarusian enterprises, on April 8, 2009 JSC  Belagroprombank jointly with the company Agrotecnica s.r.l. organized a workshop titled ”Financing by JSC Belagroprombank  of livestock farming investment projects. New technologies in livestock faming, experience of the Republic of Belarus and Italy”.

The workshop was attended by the Italian Ambassador to the Republic of Belarus Giulio Prigioni, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus Savelyev M.G., leading Belarusian agricultural enterprises, and Italian companies Agrotecnica s.r.l., Rota Guido and TDM that are the major European producers of high tech agricultural equipment and livestock breeding complex.

The main objective of this initiative is to familiarize the Belarusian agricultural enterprises with the most up-to-date technological and scientific achievements in agro industry sector. 

Besides, the workshop promoted the extension of trade and economic cooperation between Belarus and Italy, implementation of joint investments projects, financing provided by Italian credit and financial institutions, which is the relevant issue in a global financial crisis environment.

Giorgio Ponzi, director general of Agrotenica s.r.l., said that “the actual situation arouses the necessity for introduction of the highest quality technologies into the agricultural sector as a key element of economy in every country. In this connection it has become of significant importance to exchange experience, technologies and knowledge in this sector, to correctly adapt modern technologies offered by our company in the Republic of Belarus. As part of the experience exchange program we schedule visits of Belarusian delegations to Italy-based equipment producing plants to make an assessment of projects implemented at our customers’ request”.