Ministry of Agriculture and Food: the hype for food products in Belarus is artificially created

March 26, MINSK. The excitement for food products in Belarus is artificially created. This was stated on the air of the TV channel by the Minister of Agriculture and Food of Belarus Igor Brylo, BelTA informs.

“Well, what counterargument can I give? We EXPORT more than 35% of the MEAT produced, more than 62% of the MILK produced in the country without any damage to our buyers. "800 thousand tons. In the first two months, we exported about 200 thousand tons of potatoes to RUSSIA alone. So let's ask ourselves the question: are we able to feed our people? Of course we are. Therefore, I don't see any problems in this," - said Igor Brylo.

According to him, the hype for food is artificially created. “For some reason, when some kind of political, military things arise, people get the impression that they need to “stock up.” What types of products? Stewed meat, pasta, FLOUR, SALT. Well, I ask myself a question sometimes. , roughly speaking, eating one packet of flour a month, I bought 10. So what? Well, I have to eat them. Right? That is, next month, it turns out, I won’t go and buy this flour. But in fact In fact, if we compare the consumption of flour, for example, last year and this year in these few months, then more than 2 times. Pasta is the same. Our enterprise "Borimak" works in three shifts. Producing earlier and selling less than 2 thousand tons. tons of pasta is quietly on the market, now we produce almost 3.5 thousand tons," the minister said.

Igor Brylo stated: in the conditions of hype for some food products, the task is to provide the consumer with them in full. "You eat 2 times more flour now - for God's sake, we will produce twice as much flour. We will strategically arrange so that this flour is on the shelves, including the month of July. is able to eat 5 or 10 times more than he ate six months ago. All this is artificially created a little. But nevertheless, these facts exist, we need to work on them and our people need to be reassured," he added.