Lukashenko explained how to enter other markets on the example of Zimbabwe
The President of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko, at today’s meeting with the Council of Ministers leadership in an expanded format, demanded to actively enter other markets, without limiting merely to traditional sites. Listening to the report of PM Roman Golovchenko, Aleksandr Lukashenko drew attention to the situation with stocks.
The Head of Government acknowledges that there is a problem with the sale of some items of dairy products, “The key factor is price. The second reason is that the Russian Federation is slowly but surely approaching self-sufficiency in milk. Russia lacks two or three million tonnes to achieve full self-sufficiency.”
According to the PM, some of our manufacturers were not ready for this, “Earlier, butter and cheese were sold very well. The price was good, the profitability stood at about 30 percent on butter and cheese. Now the situation has changed, not everyone was ready for such a development of events. However, this phenomenon is temporary. The price on the Asian markets began to grow, due to this the situation is stabilising.”
Anyway, the Belarusian leader is categorically not satisfied with this position, “Don’t forget that the world is starving. And the last money will be spent by any state to feed its people.”
As an example, the President spoke about Zimbabwe, where 8 litres of milk are consumed per person per year while in Belarus this figure is 350, “I promised that we would help them feed their people. We will not only wait until the prices of the neighbours rise. We need to go to other markets, to occupy these markets. And they will be happy to liaise with us. We went to Zimbabwe, and today other countries are already offering them something. They say that they will work primarily with the Belarusians, because in one year they made it so that Zimbabwe fed its people with bread. They didn’t have bread, but our equipment, technologies, and people helped them in this. Within a year, at the very least, they provided themselves with bread. Now they need milk. So dry this milk, load it, and take it there. But it’s necessary to build some kind of facility there and process this milk powder, turning it into normal milk. It’s even better to produce yoghurts and others and sell it. We need to go to other markets, we can’t work with one or two markets today!”
Meanwhile, according to the same scheme, a project to create such a production from Belarusian powdered milk in China is now in its final stage.
