Belarus: to completely cover own domestic demands

Minsk / BY. (ami) In the current year, Belarus completely satisfied own domestic demands in milling grains, declared Vasiliy Sedin, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus, the Director of the Department of bakery products of the Ministry. The Deputy Minister specified that the bakpeople´s deputyery industry of the country will not have problems with grains provision. The country will have to purchase small part of wheat with high gluten content only, which is required for macaroni production. It is rather small volume – 20’000 to 30’000 tonnes only, according to Sedin. Besides, to date storehouses of the enterprises of the Ministry stock nearly 90’000 tonnes of flour from the last year harvest, which will additionally provide one month of bakery plants work and stable supplies of flour to retail chains (source: agrimarket.info).