Belarus plans to export food to $6 billion this year. On Sunday Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Mikhail Rusyi in interview to TV channel "Capital TV".

"To the six billion we have to go for export" — said Deputy Prime Minister. According to him, one of the most promising markets for Belarusian products is China. "There is interest from Chinese businessmen to our agriculture, <...> for a very short time has been able to certify many of our enterprises producing dairy and meat products to China market", — said Deputy Prime Minister.

Rus explained that the Chinese market we went to the first delivery of poultry, beef, dairy products. "Signed a contract for $20 million for the supply of beef in the study – in the export of poultry", — said brown. He noted that the started trial deliveries to the Chinese ice cream market.

"It's a very promising direction. And if we had planned for the China market to supply goods of approximately $1 million, but now we can say that the delivered goods by $17 million", — he said.

This year, the demand in foreign markets for Belarusian flour, said Deputy Prime Minister. For the six months of 2017 exported about 100 thousand tons of flour, including rye. "We have kept the amount of acreage of winter rye that we had previously. This gave the opportunity to sell rye flour is more expensive than wheat," — said Rus.

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