OREANDA-NEWS. December 19, 2007. By 2009, Belarus is set to satisfy the domestic demand for preserves including juices in full, Vice-Premier Ivan Bambiza told a session of the House of Representatives and the Council of the Republic of the Belarusian Parliament, reported the Official website www.government.by.

According to him, today Belarus imports up to 60% of juices. “By the middle of the next year we will ramp up our own capacities to produce juices to satisfy the demand of this country and to make export deliveries,” the Vice-Premier said. He also noted that in 2007-2008, Belarus’ preserving facilities will be overhauled.

Ivan Bambiza noted that Belarus is modernizing the companies of processing industry. Thus, this year more than Br400 billion was assigned to reconstruct and modernize the brewing, distilling, preserving, potato-processing, meat-dairy and sugar refining capacities. By 2010, 14 new companies are expected to be set up in Belarus and 32 companies will be modernized. Belarus is implementing the investment programme 2006-2010. In the near future, sugar refining facilities will continue renovation projects.

According to the Vice-Premier, the near-term goals are to intensify the processing production and expand product lines.