Last year Belarus managed to increase the volume of profits from food deliveries to the European Union by half, in spite of the punitive measures of the West.
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The figure was announced by Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of the country Vadim Shagoyko. Foreign shipments of agricultural products and foodstuffs rose to $8.3 billion, which, in turn, actually exceeds last year’s figures by a quarter.
Export growth has been boosted by the price environment and the expansion of certain foodstuffs.
“The structure of exports has changed. We have begun to sell more marginal products – sausages, canned foods, as well as meat,” he said.
Last year Belarus exported goods to more than a hundred countries, with Russia remaining the key consumer, whose share was at least 70%.
At the end of 2020 the Belarusian state is under severe economic restrictions imposed by Western countries. Punitive measures affected virtually all spheres of the national economic system.
The sanctions attack on Minsk increased with the start of the Russian EIA – a number of anti-Russian measures actively spread to the Belarusian state.
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