Lukashenko continuing work in Shklov District, with focus on Kupalovskoye Holding

President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko is continuing his working trip to the Shklov District of Mogilev Region today, BelTA reports

A meeting with the participation of the Head of State will focus on the concept of the Kupalovskoye Holding development. This topic was among the issues studied at the meeting in Shklov, when the effective development of agricultural production in the Shklov and Orsha districts was discussed.

The Head of State recalled that the reform of villages had begun in the Shklov District. That was not because it was the small homeland of the President. "That was because I knew every corner and every field here. It was difficult to get around me in some way, to deceive or hide some information from me,” Aleksandr Lukashenko noted.

The time has come for agriculture to take new steps forward, and the issue has again been approached using the example of the work of the Shklov District, and the Kupalovskoye Holding in particular.

The President was proposed to create a large agricultural plant in the district, but he did not rush to a decision. The talk is about the development of the Kupalovskoye Holding, and Aleksandriyskoye JSC, ASB-Agro Gorodets JSC, Shklov Butter Factory JSC as other participants of a new integration structure. The latter three enterprises are part of the President Property Management Directorate structure.

"We propose to unite them into one structure," Yuri Nazarov, the Head of the Belarus President Property Management Directorate, said. “We will take Kupalovskoye into the structure of the Property Management Directorate, if you agree – and this will be enough for the first stage. I think we can create an agro-industrial complex with strict centralisation. We have studied in more detail the experience of the Dzerzhinsky agro-industrial complex. I really like this structure, but this structure needs to be approached. By concentrating and optimising resources, we will definitely have a good result.”

After additional discussion of some points, Aleksandr Lukashenko voiced a decision, “Let's agree that you will think over this issue once again, and it would be great to have not a single point of view, but an opinion of those who doubt as well. I agree that the flows of raw materials need to be combined, and it is also necessary to combine financial flows in some way. [We have] production, processing, trade. If trade is involved… We can definitely do this in Belarus, and Russia will buy these products from us. However, production is the key, we should get the most out of it.”