OREANDA-NEWS. On 19 May 2009 was announced, that Belarus’ gross domestic product (GDP) grew 1.2% on the year in January-April 2009 to 39.1 trillion Belarusian rubles (Br), an official with Belarus’ Statistics Ministry told.

Industrial output in January-April decreased 3.6% on the year to 38.4 trillion rubles.

Farm output as of May 1, 2009 stood at 4.8 trillion rubles, up 6.6% on the year in the period.

In 2008, Belarus’ GDP grew 10% on the year to 128.8 trillion Belarusian rubles. Industrial output amounted to 127.5 trillion rubles, up 10.8% on the year. Farm output increased 8.9% to 26.9 trillion rubles.