The production association Gomselmash, a manufacturer of Belarusian agricultural equipment, launched preparations to open its dealer centers in the European Union. The first dealer agreement was singed last week with Czech stock company Trado, Gomselmash marketing director Vladimir Frolov told BelTA. The agreement was signed during an international agricultural exhibition TekhAgro-2006 which went off April 2-6 in Brno, the Czech Republic where the Belarusian manufacturer presented its goods...

The official portal of the Gomel oblast executive committee (gomel-region.by) has been sent in service on the Internet. It has been developed by specialists from the ideological department of the Gomel oblast executive committee in collaboration with the Belarusian news agency BelTA which provides information resources for the site. The portal includes dozens of sections providing an insight into various spheres of life of this south-eastern Belarusian region: authorities, economy, culture...

Gomel region started vaccinating barn-door fowl against bird flu. Dmitriy Novik, specialist of the veterinary agency of the region administration's agriculture and food committee, told BelTA, the vaccination is carried out all over the region by specialists of the veterinary service. According to Dmitriy Novik, on the whole, 1.5 million vaccine doses were bought, which will be enough for one-time vaccination. The vaccination will be carried out in 1,200 settlements located near water ponds...

The “Health, Strength, Beauty” fair was opened today in Gomel within the frames of the information campaign “Gomel oblast for healthy lifestyle”. More than 40 Belarusian companies involved in catering, sports and tourism spheres as well as pharmaceutical branch will present their products at the fair. Among the exhibits are medical preparations, vitamins, toiletry, perfumery and cosmetics, sports gear. During the exhibition food manufactures will make presentations where people will...

Schools of Gomel (Belarus) and Aberdeen (Great Britain) signed an agreement on joint education. Today Gomel city executive committee welcome Belarusian and Scottish teachers and students. Director of Gomel secondary school #72 Galina Bui told BelTA, last autumn a group of Belarusian students and teachers attended lessons at a Scottish school for several weeks. Now the Scottish students arrived in Gomel. A teacher of the Aberdeen school believes, “The partnership will allow young people to...

“Production of milk in the Gomel oblast public sector amounted to 123.7 thousand tons in January-March of 2006, or 14.1 per cent more as against the same period last year. Gross milk yield has increased in all regions of the oblast. The most considerable increase is registered in the Dobrush, Gomel and Svetlogorsk regions. Milk production here surged by 33.3, 26.8, 20.9 per cent correspondingly as compared with the first quarter of 2005,” informed head of the cattle breeding and pedigree...

The festival “Chagall’s Days in Gomel” will be held on April 5-10, BelTA was informed by cultural department’s employee of the Gomel town executive committee Tatyana Puzyrenko. The festival will be opened today in Gavriil Vaschenko’s Art Gallery with the exhibition “Mark Chagall and the Bible”. According to the interlocutor, the exposition will showcase 50 original artworks borrowed from the Chagall Museum in Vitebsk. Among them are paintings dedicated to biblical themes dated...

The foreign trade surplus of Gomel oblast in January-February amounted to USD 500 million, which is USD 181 million more than on the same time last year. It is also noteworthy that the oblast achieved trade surplus with all its trade partners, including Russia, BelTA was informed in the foreign economic relations department of the Gomel oblast executive committee. Over the two months the total exports reached USD 673 million, an increase of 28.3 per cent over a year ago, whereas imports fell...

Today Gomel will celebrate the best oblast businessmen – winners of the contest “The Best Businessman 2005”, deputy chairman of the economy committee of the oblast executive committee Marina Krivun told BelTA. According to her, about 300 applications were submitted to partake in the contest virtually from all regions and towns of the oblast. The contest had 21 nominations including production of food, consumer and industrial goods, communal services and the creation of employment...

A delegation of Gomel region industrial enterprises will visit Moscow on April 4-7. The visit framework will include a roundtable sitting involving representatives of Moscow business circles and a presentation of Gomel producers. "Promotion of our producers' make onto the Russia capital's market, expansion of the commodity distribution network and finding new partners there are priorities in the work of the regional executive power", said Elvira Karnitskaya, head of the delegation and...