The Belarus government may invest $1 billion in different sectors of Bangladesh, including agriculture, livestock, finished products, food and drugs industry.
A delegation of Belarus yesterday expressed their interest to utilise the country’s potential in production and preservation of milk and milk products, milk powder plant, production of cattle food, veterinary and poultry medicine industry, said Mihir Kanti Majumder, local government, rural development and cooperatives secretary.
The nine-member Belarusian team on its three-day from Saturday also aims at implementing a deal on the sectors signed between Bangladesh and Belarus on November 14.
The Belarusian government’s cooperation will speed up the progress of the ongoing economic development of Bangladesh, said Jahangir Kabir Nanok, state minister for LGRD and cooperative.
Nanok spoke at a meeting with the delegation at the ministry in the capital from where the announcements came out.
The delegation visited different places, including Samobay Jute Mill in Polash of Narsingdi, cattle breeding facilities of Rural Development Academy in Bogra, and Baghabari and Dhaka milk plants of Milk Vita.
The Belarus team includes: Vitali Prima, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of Belarus to India, and Anatoliy Stetsko, director general of OJSC Slutsk Cheese Factory.
-With The Daily Star input
