OAO Mogilev Meat Packing Plant and Veles-Meat, two leading meat producers from Belarus, began shipping frozen beef to China, the head of the Foreign Trade Department of the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry, Alexksei Bogdanov, told BelTA.
Mr. Bogdanov also said that until now eight meat producers from Belarus have received the approval to export beef to China and that approvals for other companies are pending.
“We are not going to stop at this. We are planning to extend both the list of exporters and the lineup of products, including ready-made ones,” Aleksei Bogdanov told BelTa.
This year, Belarus plans to export to China beef worth 20 million dollars. According to the representative of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, this amount is stipulated by the protocol signed by the Chinese side with the Belarusian companies.
