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00:00:38As of today, yes, given the increasing number
00:00:41of energy sources using local fuels, such as wood chips and
00:00:44pellets, the remaining quantities are no longer increasing; they are at
00:00:48least slowly decreasing. We
00:00:50certainly still need to work on this problem, but
00:00:54it must be understood that this is not a task for a single day. Out of curiosity, I
00:00:58monitored the situation with... and you know what,
00:01:02in some places they are even ready to sell last year's
00:01:05goods. But let's talk about it in October, November, when, as is traditional,
00:01:08the masses will wake up and rush to diversify
00:01:11fuel resources, because in the household neither
00:01:15pellets nor biofuels nor firewood will be superfluous. This is if the owner is
00:01:18diligent and provident, has a
00:01:21plan, stopped selling fertilizers
00:01:25abroad until we provide for ourselves. When we
00:01:28arrive in Mogilev...
00:02:30years and months, then
00:02:41over the last 5-7 years the global agri-food
00:02:44system has faced a large number
00:02:48of challenges and shocks, which have led to the fact that
00:02:52today 266 million
00:02:54people in 47 countries of the world are in a situation
00:02:58of acute hunger, while... global food
00:03:01security mechanisms have not worked and have
00:03:05not been able to solve the growing food
00:03:09problem. The international community still relies
00:03:12on financing emergency food
00:03:16aid for solving food security problems,
00:03:19which, by the way, is decreasing. For the period from
00:03:232022 to 2025,
00:03:26the volume of food aid
00:03:29financing in the world decreased by 60%.
00:03:42The blockade of the Strait of Hormuz made it practically
00:03:45impossible to deliver through this
00:03:49channel fertilizers,
00:03:51energy carriers, food. First
00:03:54of all, this was felt by the countries of Southeast
00:03:58Asia and'. the Union. For some goods,
00:04:02dependence on this supply channel was
00:04:0550% or more. Moreover,
00:04:09the Hormuz crisis happened precisely at a
00:04:12critical period for world agriculture, when
00:04:15the sowing campaign began. And in
00:04:19this regard, the rise in prices for fertilizers, fuels and lubricants,
00:04:23led to an increase in the costs
00:04:25of agricultural producers. I will give such data from international
00:04:29statistics. In April 2026,
00:04:33the price of carbamide on the world market was
00:04:36twice as high as in April
00:04:402025, and the price of
00:04:43triple superphosphate increased by
00:04:4630%. Of course, prices for
00:04:49food also reacted to such a rise in fertilizer and
00:04:52energy carrier prices. According to data
00:04:55from the Food and Agriculture
00:04:59Organization. FAO food price index for the first half of
00:05:022026
00:05:06increased by 6
00:05:08percentage points, which is a lot. First of all, this growth
00:05:12occurred due to prices for meat,
00:05:15grain and vegetable oil. I note that the index
00:05:19of vegetable oil prices increased by 23
00:05:22percentage points. Farmers in the European Union also
00:05:26experienced an unprecedented increase in costs,
00:05:30and, accordingly, the competitiveness of their
00:05:33products decreased and their production potential is shrinking. This
00:05:37is evidenced by statistical
00:05:38data.
00:05:47In the current situation, for the Republic of Belarus,
00:05:50it is important not only to gain an advantage from
00:05:54the favorable conjuncture of the world food market, when
00:05:57prices are rising and demand for our products is growing,
00:06:01but also to occupy niches that
00:06:05are being vacated by those countries that suffered from
00:06:08the Middle Eastern conflict. Our
00:06:11Belarusian... model of ensuring food
00:06:14security, our doctrine, is
00:06:17based primarily on a high level
00:06:20of self-sufficiency in basic types of agricultural
00:06:23products, raw materials, and food. This
00:06:26allows us, regardless of any
00:06:29changes in the external environment, to guarantee the food
00:06:33security of our population
00:06:35and to carry out stable export supplies
00:06:38of food to the world market. According to the data of the World Rural and Agricultural and Food Organization, in
00:06:43the Republic of Belarus,
00:06:46the normative diet of the population
00:06:49is provided by its own resources at
00:06:52140%, and moreover, for
00:06:5599% of the republic's population
00:06:58a healthy diet is available. Of course, in the agro-industrial complex there are not many
00:07:02labor resources, and the whole world is moving towards mechanization, firstly,
00:07:06because it is speed, secondly, people even for
00:07:09big money are no longer ready, as before, and not...
00:07:42you do for milking cows, milkmaids are fewer and fewer, Alena
00:07:46will not go tomorrow
00:07:49to milk cows, she won't go, who will milk there, we
00:07:52need these robots, we need our own, we desperately
00:07:56need it, because not only
00:07:59Alena, but also your
00:08:02wives and children, not
00:08:05very much, and mine and yours not very much there, well I don't have daughters,
00:08:09and whoever has them, they won't go milk cows.
00:08:12Ilona smiles, as if she's going to milk cows,
00:08:16well, we'll see. If this is a question of our food
00:08:19security, then the concern is quite understandable
00:08:23that we should be able to provide it ourselves and for
00:08:26ourselves. Yes, it's not as simple as with the baler, especially
00:08:30since there are plenty of analogues in the world. Even our Chinese friends can
00:08:34and do, and are ready to share technologies. Now in
00:08:37Brest, two are being compared. I
00:08:41confessed to the president
00:08:44that I brought in a Chinese baler,
00:08:47which we are currently testing on our fields, and the
00:08:51first experimental work shows that it is not
00:08:54at all inferior to Bobruisk Agromash, nor to other
00:08:58manufacturers who produce balers in our
00:09:02country, this is Grodno, this is Minsk region, we
00:09:06have good relations with this Chinese company, which
00:09:09is ready to transfer, let's say, technologies.
00:10:12Clover and flax. This is flax. The very blue
00:10:16field lakes, when it blooms. This is flax,
00:10:19beautiful, comfortable to wear, stylish, but
00:10:22capricious in cultivation and care. How
00:10:25we struggle with it every year. No, there are those who laugh at the phrase about
00:10:29pulling long-stem flax, but for those who are in the know, this
00:10:33process is not at all about pleasure and fun, and we
00:10:36preserve our such demanding wealth, although
00:10:40there are analogues, why?
00:10:43Flax is called northern silk in our country, behind this poetic
00:10:46name are years of selection, field work, workshops,
00:10:50machines. We are used to considering it a part of our identity, but
00:10:54today on the shelves... next to Belarusian, Chinese flax
00:10:56is increasingly appearing, buyers take it.
00:11:00We are not rushing to conclusions, but the question arose: what is
00:11:04our flax today and, most importantly, is it worth investing in it as much as
00:11:07we do? It all starts at the Mogilev Regional Experimental
00:11:11Station. Flax-dolgunets selection has been carried out here for 70 years.
00:11:15During this time, 27 varieties have been created. Among the bestsellers
00:11:19are reliable Malakhit, stable Rubizh, they cover half of all
00:11:22flax fields in the country. But to create a variety, it takes no less
00:11:25than 15 years, from the first crossbreeding to state tests,
00:11:29all for the sake of the fiber being thin, flexible, strong.
00:11:33Two new varieties - Patriot and Flagman, have just been sent for
00:11:36three-year trials. Varieties of Belarusian selection
00:11:39and for Belarusian climatic conditions, it
00:11:43must first of all have high fiber yield,
00:11:46secondly, quality, probably the most
00:11:49important thing before
00:11:52fiber yield, is its spinning properties. The station's collection
00:11:56has foreign samples from China, France,
00:11:59Belgium, Chinese varieties, for example, are tall, high-yielding,
00:12:021 meter 20 tall, in their climatic conditions they give
00:12:06an excellent harvest, but in Belarus they are prone to lodging, and the percentage
00:12:09of fiber content and its limiting properties are inferior to our
00:12:13varieties, so breeders use the world gene pool in their
00:12:16work, crossing foreign samples with domestic ones, to
00:12:20take the best from them and create a variety ideally suited for
00:12:23our conditions.
00:12:26From selection plots to a large field in the Gorki Len farm, this year
00:12:302 hectares were allocated for the crop. Already 90% has been pulled,
00:12:34a little over 160 hectares remain.
00:12:37Flax is not an easy crop, it needs a stable temperature of
00:12:4118 to 25 degrees and rain
00:12:44exactly on time. And after harvesting, it cannot be returned to the same field for at
00:12:47least 5-7 years, otherwise diseases accumulate.
00:12:51The main risks, well, when growing flax before germination,
00:12:55if there are heavy rains, then it will germinate poorly,
00:12:58during vegetation, of course, winds,
00:13:02rains, well, and during harvesting, of course,
00:13:05the necessary amount of precipitation for retting. Flax straw
00:13:09is sent to the factory, where two types of fiber are produced:
00:13:12long and short. Raw materials from all over the country flow to the Orsha
00:13:16flax mill, the flagship and main processor. Over the past 10 years,
00:13:20about 200 million dollars of investments have been made here.
00:13:23Today it is no longer just.
00:13:26a holding that controls the entire cycle from field to finished product.
00:13:30This year we will complete the modernization of the first weaving
00:13:33factory, where we will process mostly
00:13:36short flax fiber and obtain
00:13:39modern fabrics with the possibility of producing
00:13:42blended fabrics, so that the fabric is more modern, so that the fabric
00:13:46is more comfortable and convenient for our
00:13:50consumers. Convenience and comfort are precisely what consumers most often
00:13:54cite as an example when comparing our flax with Chinese flax. Their
00:13:57advantage is that they were able to make elastane. Elastane
00:14:01is great because it holds and does not allow the
00:14:04fabric to stretch. Our fabrics, especially 100%
00:14:08linen, if it fits snugly and is a little tight, it can
00:14:11stretch. Chinese linen is convenient and accessible, but there's
00:14:15a nuance: for the money it sells for, there's almost
00:14:18no real linen in it. It would seem that in such a case we have an advantage,
00:14:22but the market is structured differently: China is a huge, technologically advanced country with
00:14:26strong state support, they know how to promote their goods,
00:14:29they offer low prices and do it so convincingly that
00:14:33consumers rarely think about the composition, and today China is confidently
00:14:37moving up the price segment. If we do not hold
00:14:40our position, we risk losing the market. To prevent this, we need
00:14:44support not only for the giants of Bellegprom, but also for small
00:14:47businesses. For example, we have a brand that produces
00:14:51products entirely from Belarusian raw materials. Of course, we would like
00:14:55to have priority even in purchasing materials, some kind of financial
00:14:58support, then we
00:15:01can, of course, bypass the Chinese. The interest rates
00:15:05on loans and taxes for them are not at all the same
00:15:09as ours, so they have very strong state support,
00:15:12until we are supported in the same way, we will lose. Now
00:15:16let's look at the figures: the export of the Orsha Combine in
00:15:182025 exceeded 100 million dollars to 40 countries.
00:15:22Russia, China, Turkey, European states. At the same time, the profitability
00:15:26of flax production in the best farms reaches 70%.
00:15:29Is this a lot or a little, given that the state annually
00:15:33increases support, is flax worth pulling? Well, here
00:15:36it's more appropriate to ask, can we afford to
00:15:40give it up? We can't. Flax is not only fabric, it's jobs,
00:15:43it's technological independence, it's our
00:15:46identity, and to preserve this, we need to continue
00:15:50to develop, then northern silk has a
00:15:52future. We have many such
00:15:56outdated brands as flax, and why this, and that can
00:15:59be bought, but if something changes in the usual or on
00:16:03the shelf in the store, God forbid, disappears, then
00:16:06expect a wave in...
00:16:28Orsha Combine is now under the wing of agro-combine Dzerzhinsky, in case
00:16:32you didn't know, of course, but the root of the external changes is still
00:16:35different. All people are looking, and we see on social networks that they
00:16:39are asking: where is the tin can of baby
00:16:42food? Baby food was never produced in a tin can,
00:16:46there are special admissions and requirements for the production of baby meat puree,
00:16:50and an aluminum can was used there, aluminum packaging that was used in
00:16:53the production of local preserves, was imported, that
00:16:57is, it was bought from outside. The aluminum market in the Russian Federation is
00:17:00monopolized by manufacturers who have
00:17:04their own views on the development of this story, if...
00:17:07delve a little deeper, even among Russian
00:17:10manufacturers of products in aluminum packaging,
00:17:14there was a resonance, especially among beer producers, due to the fact that
00:17:18aluminum prices in Russia are somehow
00:17:21linked to the London Metal Exchange,
00:17:24and pricing is somehow for
00:17:27Russian producers and for friendly
00:17:31producers at global prices, which are in no way related
00:17:35and to some extent are speculative. We see how
00:17:38the situation in the world is developing today, how
00:17:41sanctions act and work, therefore,
00:17:44taking into account, therefore, the tasks set, first of all, themselves
00:17:48understanding that an enterprise that produces such
00:17:51an important product as baby food must be
00:17:54provided with domestic components, a decision
00:17:57was made within the import substitution
00:17:59program and to abandon
00:18:03third-party production, that is,
00:18:05outside the state. The transition to a glass jar
00:18:09of domestic production. This, of course, in no way affected
00:18:12either the recipes or the contents of
00:18:16the jar, all recipes are preserved, but
00:18:19today they have a more modern look, a glass jar is still
00:18:23neutral glass, a neutral material that does not
00:18:27come into contact with food, does not change it, therefore,
00:18:30plus the convenience of reheating, it is definitely
00:18:33more environmentally friendly, there is a question of established habit here.
00:18:45Work is being done, therefore, firstly, to
00:18:48maintain prices, here, of course, there are some aspects that
00:18:52we are working on with our large retail, but today an absolute
00:18:56understanding has been reached, so the end
00:18:59consumer will be offered a clear, familiar product, yes
00:19:03in a different container, but more recognizable, I believe,
00:19:06the information field... Stable.
00:21:51International cargo transportation. Route rebuilt.
00:21:55The carrier is betting on cooperation with foreign
00:21:58companies. Yes, ties with European partners have come to
00:22:01naught. And so a solution has been found. And this is again a reorientation to
00:22:05the East. Currently, Belarusian carriers have the opportunity to carry out
00:22:09international transportation through the territory of 15 states.
00:22:12For whom was the recycling fee canceled? The possibility of importing equipment
00:22:16without a recycling fee is a vitally necessary
00:22:19opportunity for... the carrier. Do all use the benefit
00:22:22conscientiously? By the bodies of the State Control Committee - in
00:22:26the current year the use of
00:22:2928 units of trucks for unintended
00:22:32purposes was revealed. Who chooses a domestic
00:22:35manufacturer? If we have our own, well, it's
00:22:38ours. If we don't have our
00:22:41own, we can't count on
00:22:43anyone else, and we know how to do everything
00:22:47for people's lives. How do they solve their problem? Issues in the most
00:22:51diverse spheres are under the President's
00:26:09the accident in 1988, the Polesie State Ecological Reserve
00:26:12was created. Later it was renamed
00:26:16the Polesie State Radioecological Reserve. In this status, it
00:26:20exists now.
00:26:24My name is Maxim Kudin, I am the Deputy Director for Scientific Work
00:26:27of the Polesie State Radioecological Reserve. Even after
00:26:31a forty-year period after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident,
00:26:34research into the behavior of radionuclides in ecosystems remains relevant.
00:27:03radioactivity can confidently be considered
00:27:07a driving force of evolutionary processes in biota.
00:27:10Radioactivity naturally existed since the
00:27:13formation of our
00:27:16planet. It is present today in
00:27:19almost all components we encounter in our
00:27:23lives, including.
00:27:24числе.
00:27:30We still need to be very serious.
00:28:08Chernobyl's share is up to
00:28:1110%, in some cases it may be
00:28:14even lower.
00:28:23Myths about radioactive exposure, there are
00:28:27quite a few of them, probably this is all due to the fact that
00:28:30each person...
00:29:32to this day, its total area is 217,000
00:29:36hectares, of which about 1 is allocated for
00:29:39the river, approximately 1,409,000
00:29:43hectares, this is forest-covered area.
00:29:47The reserve was created on
00:29:49the most radioactively contaminated lands of Belarus
00:29:53and its composition included
00:29:56lands of five administrative districts, although the largest
00:30:00area is represented by Khoiniki, Braginski, and Narovlya. The organization
00:30:04currently employs approximately 750
00:30:07people, of whom slightly more than 650
00:30:11belong to the category of personnel. These are all
00:30:14specialists who carry out activities for
00:30:17maintaining this territory as a safe
00:30:19object.
00:30:26thanks to the measures taken: