21 April 2025

Lukashenko comments on financial performance of Belarus’ woodworking industry

The financial indicators of the country’s woodworking industry show where our money and our perspective are, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said during his visit to woodworking site No.2 of the Orsha Forestry in the agro-town of Kopys on 21 April, BelTA has learned. 

Belarusian Forestry Minister Aleksandr Kulik reported to the president on the provision of forestries with modern logging equipment and also the woodworking industry with wood raw materials. Speaking about exports, Aleksandr Kulik noted that the products are exported to the markets of 16 countries. The financial performance in the woodworking industry have improved, the minister added.

“These results are showing where our money and our perspective is. It is not even in oil refining. We have our own raw materials. We should develop this area, and everything which is related to this raw material,” Aleksandr Lukashenko stressed.

Last year the organizations affiliated with the Forestry Ministry supplied 10 million cubic meters of wood to state and private wood processing enterprises of the country. Head of the Belarus President Property Management Directorate Yuri Nazarov said that the enterprises that process wood in large volumes need to see the perspective. 

“It is necessary either to solve everyone's issues with the concern, or to hold annual bidding on the exchange, as it was done before,” the head of the Belarus President Property Management Directorate said. “They need to understand the diameters, the annual volume of roundwood they will be offered.”

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