Eighty-eight fast response repair teams have been created in Gomel region to service grain drying facilities. Representatives of Gomel region administration's agriculture and food committee told BelTA, at present 97 per cent of the available grain dryers and 95 per cent of the available winnowing machine are ready. The readiness status is expected to reach 100 per cent in the next few days. According to the source, to hit the target 88 specialised repair teams were created for restoring the...

Agricultural companies of Gomel oblast started harvesting campaign to meet the state order on grain. The JSC Gomelkhleboprodukt has already received first 600 tons. As chief of the plant cultivation department of the Gomel oblast committee for agriculture and foodstuffs Mikhail Kolesnikov told BelTA, this year’s target is to cultivate 130,000 tons of grain. The works should be done by September 15. He noted that so far 8 per cent has been harvested and 62,500 tons of grain have been...

In line with the programme “Patronage assistance” adopted by the Gomel City Council in March this year workers of the industrial companies of Gomel have joined the harvesting campaign. As a correspondent of BelTA was informed in the economy department of the Gomel City Council, at present necessary assistance is rendered to the Gomel, Buda-Koshelevo, Vetka and Dobrush regions. More than 60 vehicles were sent to agricultural companies of the aforementioned regions. About 600 Gomel...

More than 500 people from Gomel will take part in festival of working youth “On the Way to Olympus”. The festival’s camp opens today near the village of Teriukha, Gomel region. The festival gathering working young people has been held for the second year, chief of the department for youth policy of the Gomel town council Vladimir Privalov told BelTA. This year more than 20 companies headquartered in Gomel are taking part in it. According to Vladimir Privalov, the main aim of the...

Thirty activists of Gomel region committee of the public association Belarusian National Youth Union joined the reconstruction of Nesvizh castle. Representatives of the BNYU Gomel region committee told BelTA, the first group of the action participants are students of Gomel universities, who arrived in Nesvizh yesterday. Today the guys were instructed by specialists and are fit for unskilled labour. The students will take part in reinforcing the castle’s fundament, walls and in...

Representatives of 10 countries will take part in the 4th international choreography festival “Sozhki Karagod” (Sozh Round Dance) which will run from September 7 until September 10 in Gomel. As BelTA has been told in the culture department of the town council, applications for participation have been submitted by dance companies from France, Great Britain, Germany, China, Russia and other states. A total of 35 amateur dance groups and 150 ball dance performers will take part in the...

Southern regions of Gomel oblast of Belarus have started harvesting cereals. As head of the department for plant growing of the committee for agriculture and food of Gomel oblast executive committee Mikhail Kolesnikov said, most regions have plunged into hard work. First to start were the Khoiniki, Oktyabrskiy and Rechitsa regions of the oblast. According to him, this year the major harvest campaign started one week earlier than usually. This was caused by extremely hot summer. Because of...

The first to open the harvesting campaign was the Khoiniki region. Having conducted the traditional folk ceremony "Zazhinki" the agricultural companies Sudkovo and Arevichi gave a start to the campaign. This is the beginning of the mass harvesting campaign of spring crops and leguminous plants, chairman of the Khoiniki regional executive committee Nikolai Sadchenko told BelTA. According to him, the region is set to harvest about 11 thousand hectares, or 7 per cent more than last year. Given...

About 7 thousand tickets have been sold out for a football match Shakhter (Soligorsk) and Siroki Brijeg (Bosnia and Herzegovina) which will be held tonight in Gomel. The match is the first Champions League qualification round. This is the second international game which has been hosted by Gomel this season. The players have already arrived in Gomel, the directorate of the Tsentralnyi stadium informs. The team is staying in the Sozh Hotel and held a first training session yesterday night....

Instrumental music band Liritsa of Gomel regional philharmonic led by Trofim Antipov won the grand prix of the international youth festival "Folklore without Boundaries" in Bulgaria. First deputy head of the Gomel region administration's culture department Olga Antonenko told BelTA, every year this prestigious musical forum gathers a huge number of performers from all over the world. This year over one thousand music bands from 32 countries took part in the festival. According to the...