Organizations of all types of ownership built about 32,200 apartments in Belarus in January-October 2023. As much as 2,974,100 m2 of housing was commissioned, the National Statistical Committee told BelTA. As much as 1,128,600 m2 of housing or 37.9% of the total housing commissioned was built for people on the housing register. As much as 791,700 m2 of housing was built using government subsidies As much as 988,600m2 of housing was commissioned in rural communities or 33.42 of the...

All kinds of agricultural enterprises gathered in about 9.5 million tonnes of grain, including rapeseed, in Belarus in 2023. The top grain producers are Brest Oblast, Grodno Oblast, and Minsk Oblast. Four districts in each oblast gathered in more than 100,000 tonnes of grain per district, the Agriculture and Food Ministry told BelTA. Belarusian farmers have successfully passed their trials by growing and collecting enough grain to ensure food security and successful development of the...

A special tactical exercise focusing on cleaning up an emergency will take place at the railway station Lupolovo in Mogilev on 17 November, the Mogilev Oblast branch of the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry told BelTA. Representatives of the Emergencies Ministry, gas supply service, railway workers, and medics will take part in the exercise. A leak of liquefied gas in a tank car will be simulated. Participants of the exercise will have to promptly respond to the emergency and coordinate...

Space industry has become a driver of the innovative way of Belarus' development. Aleksandr Shumilin, Academic Secretary of the Department of Physics, Mathematics and Informatics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB), made the statement during the plenary session of the Eurasian Economic Union's international business forum Space Integration in Moscow, BelTA has learned. The NASB press service quoted Aleksandr Shumilin as saying: “Belarus chose the path of innovations a...

Progress in executing this year's budget of the Union State of Belarus and Russia, the formation of the next year's budget, preparation of new programs, projects, and events of the Union State of Belarus and Russia were discussed at a session of the Economic Policy, Industry, and Trade Commission of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State of Belarus and Russia in the Russian city of Samara on 14 November, the assembly's press service told BelTA. According to the source, the draft...

The area under leguminous crops is supposed to increase to 240,000 hectares in Belarus in 2024, BelTA learned from Belarusian Deputy Agriculture and Food Minister Vladimir Grakun at a press conference dedicated to Day of Workers of Agriculture and Processing Industry of Agribusiness. Vladimir Grakun said: “We have harvested 12,000 tonnes of soybeans this year. We can grow this crop but we cannot get steady harvests every year. This is why we encourage agricultural enterprises to pay...