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A working group consisting of Prime Minister Alyaksandr Turchyn, Deputy Chairman of the All-Belarusian People’s Assembly Alyaksandr Kosinets and head of the Academy of Sciences Uladzimir Karanik will prepare proposals for the further development of the Belarusian National Biotechnology Corporation (BNBC). First Deputy Prime Minister Mikalai Snapkou announced this after today’s meeting with Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
“This team will prepare a proposal, a project that will be implemented in one of two ways. Either through a preferential Chinese government loan, which has specifically been included in the PRC budget for 2026 in the amount of 3.5 billion yuan, or through a direct Chinese investor who will participate in this production together with us both as a technology holder and as a joint business partner,” he said, according to BelTA.
Today Alyaksandr Lukashenka acknowledged at the meeting that BNBC still has not reached full production capacity and is facing financial problems. Despite this, he does not want to abandon biotechnology.
According to Mikalai Snapkou, Lukashenka is demanding further expansion.
“Plant-based biotechnologies include probiotics, antibiotics and much more. This is a much broader range of development for various industries and growth points for Belarus, which, at the president’s request, we will continue to develop on the basis of BNBC. Moreover, this also includes biotechnologies in animal production. The requirement set today at the meeting is simple — to continue developing a chain of applied industries related to biotechnology,” the first deputy prime minister explained.