Analytics, EU – Baltic States, Lithuania

The Ambassador to Lithuania Vladimir Drazhin

The Ambassador Drazhin pointed out to minister Starkevicius that Belarusian farmers are interested in new technologies related to the production of feed and procession of grain.

"Our specialists have visited many Lithuanian grain processing companies and evaluate them very well. We produce a lot of milk (last year 6.5 million tonnes) and meat (about 1 million tones), therefore it is highly important for us to install state-of-the-art product procession technologies, so that our products comply with the EU requirements and we can enter its market. Lithuania could be a perfect gate to Europe for us," ambassador Drazhin said at the meeting.

He underlined that Belarus appreciates the sharing of experience between the food and veterinary, plant protection institutions in the two countries, which is very useful to Belarusian specialists.

The agriculture minister pointed out that the science and training as well as farmers" self-government institutions in the two countries could be cooperating much closer too.