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Saturday 18 May 2013


Belarus

Belarus - New poultry complex gets under way

Group Arvi (Lithuania) has recently announced plans to create a production facility for turkey meat in the Lida district of Grodnenskay Oblast of Belarus by 2015.

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Monday 06 May 2013


Belarus

Belarus - Fourth annual Ross Technical Seminar

Fourth annual Ross Technical Seminar in Belarus focuses on nutrition The fourth annual technical seminar for Ross Parent Stock (PS) customers took place recently in Belarus. The event, organised by Aviagen together with its Grandparent (GP) customer PPR Broiler, OAO Agrocombinat Dzerzhinsky, took place near Minsk and saw 90 delegates attend.

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Friday 12 April 2013


Belarus

Belarus - Ban on pork imports

The veterinary department of the Republic of Belarus has banned the import of pork from North Ossetia and the Krasnodar Region following the outbreaks of African Swine Fever (ASF), said the Department of Veterinary and Food Control of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Belarus.

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Sunday 03 February 2013


Belarus

Belarus - Food Industry 2013, Minsk, Belarus

Food Industry 2013, Minsk, Belarus - International Trade Show for Food Processing in Belarus

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Saturday 05 January 2013


Belarus

Belarus - Europes last Dictatorship playing the "meat ban game"

Belarus has introduced a temporary restriction on the import of poultry from the Czech Republic due to a recent Newcastle disease outbreak.

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Saturday 15 December 2012


Belarus

Belarus - Europe's last Dictatorship bans pork

Belarus has banned the import of pork from the Moscow region of Russia because of recent outbreaks of African Swine Fever (ASF), while pork from Latvia has been banned due to Classical Swine Fever fears.

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Belarus

Belarus - Poultry and pork in Europes last Dictatorship

According the official report company Servolux became the main shareholder of "Smolevichi broiler poultry farm", Servolux gained control over the company through the process of follow-on offering.

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Sunday 02 December 2012


Belarus

Belarus - Meat bans are just muscle flexing

The continuous outbreaks of African Swine Fever (ASF) virus in the wild reported in the Tver region forced Belarus to ban pork imports from this part of Russia.

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Saturday 01 December 2012


Belarus

Belarus - More meat for Russia

More meat for Russia

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Thursday 08 November 2012


Belarus

Belarus - Europes last Dictatorship playing silly buggers on meat imports

Belarus has introduced a temporary restriction on the import of pork from Mongolia, according to the Department of Veterinary and Food under the Ministry of Agriculture.

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Thursday 25 October 2012


Belarus

Belarus - Poultry good but processing bad

After visiting two poultry farms in Belarus, EU veterinarians have concluded that the country’s chicken has enough quality for European consumers but there are still a number of weak points to the production process, which producers must fix immediately.

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Sunday 21 October 2012


Belarus

Belarus - pig price increases

Belarus has set the maximum selling price of pork carcasses, reported the Ministry of Economy.

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Saturday 20 October 2012


Belarus

Belarus - Playing politics with meat bans

Since October 10 Belarus imposed a temporary restriction on the import of pork and pork products from the Lipetsk region because of African Swine Fever (ASF), according to the Department of Veterinary and Food Supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture of Belarus.

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Saturday 11 August 2012


Belarus

Belarus - Pork imports banned

The outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) in Ukraine forced the neighbouring countries Belarus and Moldova to restrict pork product imports from that country.

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Tuesday 15 May 2012


Belarus

Belarus - Chick Quality and Hatchability on the Agenda

Aviagen and their Grandparent (GP) customer PPR Broiler recently held their third annual joint technical seminar for Ross Parent Stock (PS) customers in Belarus.

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Tuesday 24 April 2012


Belarus

Belarus - Poultry production

In the first two months of this year, Belarus produced 74.1 thousand (live weight) tonnes of poultry, which is 17% higher than what was produced in 2011 during the same period.

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Friday 23 March 2012


Belarus

Belarus - By Product imports

Belarus plans in the coming years to minimise the import of protein components of compound feed due to the significant rise in domestic production.

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Sunday 04 March 2012


Belarus

Belarus - New Turkey complex

One of the largest farms for the production of turkey meat will be built in the Dzyatlava district of the Grodno region, north-west Belarus.

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Saturday 04 February 2012


Belarus

Belarus - Russia must clean up farming practices

The Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs of Belarus has urged authorities to take on more measures in order to stop the spread of African Swine Fever (ASF) in the Belarus region. This comes as Russia is in the midst of fighting ASF.

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Saturday 14 January 2012


Belarus

Belarus - Shame of African Swine fever

Because of the rapid deterioration of the epizootic situation of African swine fever (ASF) in Russia, the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs of Belarus calls on regional authorities to take additional measures to prevent spreading of this disease on its territory, reported in the ministry.

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Sunday 26 June 2011


Belarus

Belarus - Belarusian Ross seminar focuses on improving chick quality

Aviagen and their Grandparent (GP) customer PPR Broiler recently teamed up to host a seminar for Belarusian Parent Stock (PS) customers. With a rapidly growing PS market in the country, this was the second of the now annual seminars to be held.

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Friday 17 June 2011


Belarus

Belarus - Increasing pork production

In Belarus, live weight pork production for the years 2011-2015 has to grow by more than 1.5 times up to 630 tonnes per year.

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Thursday 26 May 2011


Belarus

Belarus - Seminar Focuses on Improving Chick Quality

Aviagen and their Grandparent (GP) customer PPR Broiler recently teamed up to host a seminar for Belarusian Parent Stock (PS) customers. With a rapidly growing PS market in the country, this was the second of the now annual seminars to be held.

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Wednesday 25 May 2011


Belarus

Belarus - Green light for German pork

Belarus has allowed pork, food containing pork and poultry to be imported from Germany without being tested for dioxins, said the press office of the Belarusian Ministry of Agriculture and Food.

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Tuesday 24 May 2011


Belarus

Belarus - Pork import rules

Belarus has introduced new rules for the import of pork and poultry from Germany, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Agriculture and Food Ministry of Belarus.

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Thursday 07 April 2011


Belarus

Belarus - German pork ban lifted

The decision was taken by the chief veterinary office of the Belarusian Ministry of Agriculture and Food, reports Itar-Tass.

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Wednesday 06 April 2011


Belarus

Belarus - The grain harvest

This year the nationwide harvest of grain crops is projected at 9.9 million tonnes in Belarus, Minister of Agriculture and Food Mikhail Rusyi told a press conference.

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Tuesday 23 November 2010


Belarus

Belarus - Poultry exports

Belarus will not have problems selling poultry meat if Russia bans selling frozen poultry meat, BelTA learned from Vasily Prudnikov, Head of the Central Office for Foreign Trade of the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry.

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Sunday 31 October 2010


Belarus

Belarus - Disease in pigs

At a farm in Belarus, a new highly pathogenic strain of the Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) virus has been found. Results of a study into the new strain were made public recently by researchers of the University of Ghent, Belgium, led by Dr Hans Nauwynck. The new strain, from the sub-type 3 of European strains, is considered to cause severe clinical signs.

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Friday 29 October 2010


Belarus

Belarus - Milk exports

BELARUS could increase its milk powder supplies to Venezuela by a factor of 1.6 next year, to 16 000 tonnes, according to blackseagrain.net. The website quotes Vasily Prudnikov, chief of the general directorate of foreign trade of Belarus's Ministry of Agriculture and Food, as saying: "In January-August this year we supplied 9 000 tonnes of milk powder to Venezuela.

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Friday 22 October 2010


Belarus

Belarus - The grain harvest

Belarus had harvested 1,964,100 tonnes of sugar beet as of October 11, up 5.5% from 1,862,400 tonnes at the same time last year, the Ministry of Agriculture reported.

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Monday 30 August 2010


Belarus

Belarus - Sharp rise in poultry production

Poultry production in the Repubic of Belarus will double by 2015, Agriculture and Food Minister of Belarus Mikhail Rusyi said in a session of the Council of Ministers’ Presidium. "In 2015 the country plans to produce 548,000 tonnes of poultry meat live weight or double the 2009 level", the minister said.

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Friday 23 July 2010


Belarus

Belarus - Aviagen held first ever poultry production and technical seminar in Belarus

Representatives with a broad range of expertise from veterinary specialists to heads of production attended the event at the Hotel Victoria in Minsk. In total 12 Belarusian parent stock farms were represented.

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Friday 14 May 2010


Belarus

Belarus - Pork imports

Conditions of distribution of the pork import tariff quota have been changed in Belarus in 2010. The relevant decision is laid down by Council of Ministers resolution No 615, representatives of the Council of Ministers Office told BelTA.

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Tuesday 09 February 2010


Belarus

Belarus - New taraiff's on pork imports

The Government of Belarus has laid down the rules for allocating tariff quotas for pork import in 2010, reports the Belarusian Telegraph Agency, BelTA

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Monday 16 November 2009


Belarus

Belarus - Dairy products for EU

“Belarus still is not presented in Europe. Our meat and dairy products are already in the UK, but they are supplied only as finished products, but not raw materials,” Shapiro said.

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Sunday 15 November 2009


Belarus

Belarus - Pork inport ban on Russia

Another little tit for tat spate has occurred between Belarus and their old masters Russia. This is the third import ban this year. Belarus has imposed temporary restrictions on the pork import from Russia, Darya Kozlovskaya, spokeswoman

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Thursday 05 November 2009


Belarus

Belarus - Ban on Russian pork

Belarus has banned pork imports from Russia over the recent swine fever outbreak, a spokeswoman for the country's food and agriculture ministry told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.

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Monday 26 October 2009


Belarus

Belarus - Sugar exports

Belarus is planning to increase the exports of sugar to European Union in the coming years, sources in the Belarusian government have told.

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Monday 20 July 2009


Belarus

Belarus - Joint meat venture

The Hungarian-based meat processor Babati es Tarsa is to set up a joint venture firm in

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Wednesday 17 June 2009


Belarus

Belarus - The dairy industry

Belarus on Sunday said it would not take part in a regional security meeting hosted by its longtime ally Russia in protest at Moscow's “discriminatory” ban on the import of Belarussian milk.

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Wednesday 10 June 2009


Belarus

Belarus - Packaging company moves further east

Linpac, Global packaging group, wants to expand manufacture in Eastern Europe with possible plans for a new food packaging materials plant in the former Soviet Union state of Belarus.The firm stated that it is in discussions with the Belarus authorities on establishing a fresh unit to serve the growing food packaging market in Central and Eastern Europe.

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Wednesday 20 May 2009


Belarus

Belarus - German meat company to open abattoir

In 2009, the agricultural plant Snov (Minsk region) intends to launch a slaughter facility with a capacity of 50 tons of cattle per shift.

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Jan Zandbergen        Lanexco Ltd