CJSC ASB-Agro Haradzets will now be supported by Mahilyowoblgaz. Today, the National Legal Internet Portal published Resolution No. 234 of the Council of Ministers dated May 11, transferring the agricultural enterprise’s shares to the management of the Mahilyowoblgaz state enterprise.
OJSC Machulishchy Greenhouse Complex will transfer 53,339 shares in the company to the ownership of the Republic of Belarus and the economic management of Mahilyowoblgaz by August 1, while the Kupalauskaye holding company will transfer 53,690 shares. Together, this amounts to 100% of Haradzets’ shares.
CJSC ASB-Agro Haradzets was visited by Aliaksandr Lukashenka in September last year. At the time, his press service said that he had drawn attention to “mismanagement and a lack of order, which, in his words, negatively characterizes not only the work of the company’s management but also the shortcomings of the leadership of the Shklow district and the Presidential Property Management Directorate, within whose structure Haradzets operates.” According to Lukashenka, this led to the situation where “they effectively ruined the farm, which became not the very worst, but one of the worst.”
“It is sad, of course. This is the worst farm I have seen in the past two years,” Lukashenka said.
He instructed the head of Haradzets, local authorities, and the management of the Presidential Property Management Directorate to restore perfect order by spring.
Lukashenka himself once headed the farm.
“When I came here, the farm was the worst in the Soviet Union. Nobody came here to make things easy for us. We pulled ourselves out on our own,” he recalled last autumn.
Two weeks later, Lukashenka’s property management chief Yury Nazaraw reported on the steps taken to improve the situation.
Now, it appears that Mahilyowoblgaz will help ASB-Agro Haradzets “pull itself out.”
