Gomselmash is entitled to exporting to EU

The Production Association Gomselmash, a major Belarusian producer of agricultural equipment, has been entitled to selling their products in the EU member states, Vladimir Frolov, Gomselmash director, told BelTA. Following the tests of the Gomselmash machinery carried out in the Czech Republic, the Belarusian equipment was granted certificates of conformity and a right to bear CE Mark. The units featured include harvester Г-6 Polesye, harvester КДП-3000, rotation-type mowing and crushing machine КПР-9, and other pieces of machinery. The testing of grain harvester КЗС-1218 will be completed early in September. The Gomel-based company hopes to send the first pieces of equipment to the Czech Republic already this year. The Trado Holding is the official representative of Gomselmash in the Czech Republic. In June, a group of Czech specialists visited the Gonselmash training center to learn the rules of operation and maintenance of all the equipment the company produces. The Czech company will promote Belarusian farm machines to the market of Slovakia, where a big agricultural exhibition closed several days ago. According to Vladimir Frolov, Slovakian agrarians showed interest in the Belarusian machines. At the exhibition Gomselmash held a special seminar for farmers and chiefs of big agricultural companies to inform them in detail about its products. Gomselmash is one of the biggest companies of Belarus producing technologically interconnected farm machines for cultivating and harvesting crops. The company makes combine harvesters, mowing machines, forage, sugar beet and potato harvesters and soil-treating equipment. In January-July 2006 the production association manufactured 908 combine harvesters and 211 forage harvesters or 24 and 8 machines respectively more against the same period of 2005.