Sergienko assessed the situation in the Vitebsk region in the field of agriculture

Igor Sergeenko. April 27, MINSK . The life of settlements and people depends on the development of agriculture. This was stated by Igor Sergeenko, Chairman of the House of Representatives and Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of Belarus in the Vitebsk Region, on a news broadcast, BELTA reports.

"The HEAD of state has set the task of addressing the overall situation in the Vitebsk Region. Despite some positive developments that emerged last year, we see problems in livestock farming (today, in fact, only 18-20% of the Vitebsk Region has modern livestock farms, while the remaining facilities, which produce more than 65% of MILK, are old farms from the 1960s and 1970s). Therefore, an audit was conducted and solutions were sought for the accumulated issues," Igor Sergeenko said.

He emphasized that the life of settlements and people in rural areas depend on the development of agriculture.

Sergei Levkovich, First Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, also noted that the region has accumulated a huge number of problems in agriculture. However, there are agricultural organizations that are operating quite successfully. "This suggests that good results can be achieved in the Vitebsk Region. And there are, in fact, many such agricultural organizations that operate quite effectively. There are people to work with, and the wages are appropriate. But people work where there is order," Sergei Levkovich noted. On April 25,
Belarusian President ALEXANDER LUKASHENKO appointed Sergei Levkovich First Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee. Prior to this, he served as Aide to the President and Inspector for the Vitebsk Region.

"My visit to the Vitebsk Region—to the best districts—shows that there are many organizational problems there. And you work there, too. You are also responsible for this and know what is happening there," the Belarusian leader said.

Alexander Lukashenko noted that models of what and how to do things already exist in the regions, from agrotowns and urban settlements to the district level. If necessary, this can be further explored using the examples of Kopys and Shklov, which the head of state recently visited.

"So, everything has already been worked out. We need to organize it. Labor discipline in the Vitebsk region is poor. But the most important thing is that in the near future, at a meeting in the Vitebsk region, we will review how the Vitebsk region has performed under the latest program, which we approved at the presidential level. Remember, Nikolai Sherstnev (former chairman of the regional executive committee – BELTA) proposed it – these integration structures and so on and so forth. Everyone (both young people and older people) say that the idea is not bad, but it is poorly implemented in the Vitebsk region. Not everywhere, of course. But the question arises: why was it created, why was it not pushed through, why was it not done as it should have been," the head of state said.
Screenshot from the video of the Belarus 1 TV channel