Belarus to modernize milk processing plants to produce products in demand on the market

29 May, MINSK . The main objective of the measures to modernize and technically re-equip organizations of the dairy industry for 2024 and 2025 is to develop an industrial base for the production of dairy products with a higher market value that are in demand on the market. This was told to a BELTA correspondent by Maria Klimova, Deputy HEAD of the Main Directorate for Processing Industry of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, during her participation in the business conference "Industrial Complex of the Republic of Belarus

in the Year of Quality ". "In 2023, in order to progressively develop the MILK processing industry, increase milk production volumes, increase the utilisation of production capacities of milk processing enterprises and improve their efficiency, measures were taken to update the strategic directions of development taking into account the realities and changes in external milk markets. Thus, in November 2023, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food approved a new strategy for the development of the milk processing industry in Belarus for 2023-2025," Maria Klimova said.

As noted, in the context of global overproduction of dairy products, innovations are becoming the driver of market development. The production urgently needs new ideas, which formed the basis of the new strategy for the development of the dairy processing industry, allowing manufacturers, for example, to improve in the production of innovative dairy products and pure milk-based components.

In addition to the main approaches to increasing the production of high-added-value products and increasing the volume of B2C product sales, the innovations of the updated strategy consist in the development of innovative technologies for obtaining popular products that the main supplier countries cannot offer to the market in large quantities.

The business conference "Industrial Complex of the Republic of Belarus in the Year of Quality" is being held for the first time. The organizers set themselves the task of presenting the experience and developments of domestic industrial enterprises in improving the quality of products, activating innovation and producing high-tech products. it is assumed that the conference will facilitate the exchange of experience and best practices between specialists of enterprises and create conditions for the emergence of new contacts, finding partners and establishing cooperation ties. The forum is held with the assistance and active participation of ministries and concerns regulating the activities of enterprises in eight industries. The conference is organized by the Minsk City Technopark and the organizing committee of the republican competition "Industry Leaders of the Republic of Belarus - 2024".