OREANDA-NEWS. May 17, 2011. As many as 240 investment projects will be presented at the 8th Gomel Economic Forum, Deputy Chairman of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee Boleslav Pirshtuk told a press conference on 16 May.

 Those are projects for agriculture, processing industry, civil engineering, trade, tourism, power engineering, and other areas. In particular, there are plans to implement investment projects to build a facility to breed 54,000 pigs per annum in the agricultural company Sozh, to start manufacturing cement-bonded particle boards and sacrificial formwork in Gomeloblstroi (a branch of Zhlobin integrated home-building factory No 3), to start manufacturing fiber glass fittings in the free economic zone Gomel-Raton, to build a farm tourism estate in lands of the farming enterprise Greenway Fruit, to build a facility to process milk and turn out dairy products. They will be presented during the plenary part.

 Besides, the official said that shares in enterprises will be offered for sale at the forum along with real estate (83 properties) and 124 land plots. There are plans to sign nine investment agreements and five protocols of intent.

 The 8th Gomel Economic Forum will take place in Gomel on 20 May. It will gather over 200 representatives of official delegations from 21 countries.