Новости области

Reconstruction of the M3 Minsk-Vitebsk highway is underway in Minsk Oblast, Belta reports with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Transport and Communications.

From August 27 to September 28, electronic job fairs will be held for residents of Minsk Oblast.

Almost 50.000 schoolchildren of junior and senior grades of Minsk and Minsk Oblast improved their health in children's camps this summer, Belarus 1 reports.

Wednesday, 26 August 2020 11:49

97% of grain areas harvested in Minsk Oblast

In Minsk Oblast, as of the morning of August 24, 97% of the area was harvested, according to the Committee on Agriculture and Food, Minsk Oblast Executive Committee.

Just a few days are left before the start of the new academic year, Belarus 1.

The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) is considering limiting the use of plastic bags in stores, Olga Sazonova, the head of the waste management, biological and landscape diversity department at the Belarusian Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Ministry, said at a press conference on 21 August, BelTA has learned.

As of the morning of August 20, the agrarians of the Minsk region threshed more than 1 million 885 thousand tons of grain, the Committee on Agriculture and Food of the Minsk Oblast Executive Committee reported.

Athletes from Minsk Oblast, gaining 91 points, were ahead of rivals from Minsk (80) and Grodno Oblast (75) in the team competition of the Belarusian youth championship in Greco-Roman wrestling, which ended in the capital, Belta reports.

In January-July 2020, agricultural farms of all kinds (state-run agricultural enterprises, private farmers, subsidiary farms) produced Br9.9 billion worth of goods, which was 2.8% up year-on-year in comparable prices, BelTA learned from the National Statistics Committee.

Belarus still has to harvest 12.1% of land under grain and leguminous crops (except for maize, buckwheat and millet), BelTA learned from the Agriculture and Food Ministry.