Agrimarket Consulting, Ukraine
May 11 2005

Belarus and Armenia negotiated cooperation in farm sector

Belarus and Armenia are interested in development of trade
cooperation in the farming sector, Deputy Ministers of Agriculture of
the two countries Vasily Pavlovsky and Levon Rukhyan said on May 3,
following the talks they had had Belarus’ Ministry of Agriculture and
Food Industries.

Farm industry specialists from Armenia said they were interested in
supplies of highly productive potato and malting barley seeds of
Belarusian breed, and also Belarusian farming equipment (tractors),
which are best suited for serving small farming land plots. In their
turn, Armenian partners are ready to supply to Belarus early-ripening
fruits and vegetables, premium quality wine materials and cognacs.

Belarusian party also said it was willing to sell to the Caucasian
republic canned milk and meat products, milk powder and other dairy
products (one of Belarus’ milk canning plants has already had an
experience of selling its products to Armenia).