The goritsa dairy plant is expanding its product line, the geography of liskhos lumber exports, they have launched the production of highprotein products for healthy sports nutrition, and they have increased processing volumes at shilnozavod to 8. 00 tons per year. Year, the demand is colossal, here on the outskirts of the city, there was once a vacant lot, now there is a new microdistrict, and every year another Apartment Building has been rented out. This year, 54 families will celebrate housewarming. Another pride is the goritsa childrens and youth sports school, a place of recreation for townspeople and lovers of a healthy lifestyle, including those from the neighboring area. Ice arena, gym, training in six sports football, athletics, hockey, there is a place to raise future champions. We also have our own, as we call them in the hills, places of power the alley of heroes of the soviet union and socialist labor, natives of the area and the main memorial complex of the grieving mother, where about 200 civilians who died during the great patriotic war are buried ; the memory of about 1000 residents of the area is immortalized ; a symbol of courage, heroism and devotion to their homeland. Like a mandate to preserve everything that was created during these peaceful years, the years of strong and independent belarus. The longawaited sporting intrigue was resolved, metallurg returned the president s cup home. We are the champions, who are the champions, we are the champions, who champions, we are champions. Wolves fought against brest in the confrontation for gold until four victories. The final numbers in the match are 4 0. For metallug, this championship was the third in a row and the fourth in history. Previously, only tiwala and youth managed to win the national championship. Guys, you have done a great job for the city, for the plant, for all the fans, who are the champions, we are the champions, the coaching staff, the whole team, everyone follows the same idea, they come first. Until the end, when we gathered in the summer, we believed that we had this goal planned, so the coaches constantly told us about this, so it was as if we had no other options. The brest hockey players came second in the championship, the southerners had a triumphant season, and the bisons won awards for the first time in a quarter of a century. Thus, the competitive year in the extra league is officially over, but not the season. The fourth in history will take place on april 26. Wednesday all the best and dont switch, good evening, on the air economic environment on belarus one of the satellite tv channel belarus 24, they traded for 23 million dollars, analysts cite rising gasoline prices, higher rents and Car Insurance as the reasons for the growth. Already, the level of Consumer Prices is far from the forecast 2 for the year. Gold and Foreign Exchange reserves have increased again in belarus. According to the National Bank , International Reserve assets increased by 134 million in march. As of april 1 , they exceeded 8. 3 billion. The key reason is the increase in gold prices by more than 8 in march. Belarus Foreign Exchange reserves are growing for the second month in a row. Industrial output increased over 3 years by almost 40 . Last year it was produced for almost 30 billion rubles. Thats just about 113 . These figures were announced at a large meeting on industry with the president. But there are also problems. Decrease in production at a number of industrial giants, stocks in warehouses, search for new markets. The head of state has set serious tasks. What will you have to work on . Industrial sector in the near future, how to reduce inventories, replace imported components, increase exports and ensure accelerated modernization of production, Development Tasks industry will discuss with competent experts right now. Today in our studio we have experts who are well versed in issues of Industrial Development, alexander ogorodnikov, first deputy minister of industry, andrey kartun, first deputy minister of economy, sergei lesin, general director. Joint Stock Company bilas, Management Company of the holding belas holding. Vladimir turovets, director of the jointStock Company institute belar stankinprom. Dear guests, good evening. Kind, kind evening. But we remember that an expanded meeting on industry was planned for a long time by the head of state. And i want to start our discussion with the issue of the quality of products, because increasing production volumes to meet market demands cannot allow quality to suffer. Our president emphasized this, he called ensuring the quality of products and proper Aftersales Service a key issue for enterprises, and the facts when new equipment breaks down even before use is unacceptable, lets listen to our president thats quality, yes always, the products produced must be at the highest level, and nothing else, this is not a whim, but a severe vital necessity, a question of the future of the country of the people, our products must. How can we solve this problem in practice and how to instill a culture of quality in our employees . Well, in my opinion, we need to say that. Quality is not formed on the Assembly Line or at the working machine that performs this or that operation, quality is formed at the level of top management of companies, and that is management top echelon, he creates a system that prevents the release of lowquality products or determines the level of quality produced. No one is immune from errors, but errors must be dealt with correctly, but we must take into account that essentially the level of quality, that is, high quality is a function of costs, it is impossible to ensure a high level of quality. By increasing the cost part and, accordingly, possibly the price level for such products. What do you think, vladimir alexandrovich, how can we instill in our employees production culture of quality . We must adopt a culture of quality from the very beginning. We are talking about educational institutions, we are talking about secondary specialized, secondary technical educational institutions, and higher educational institutions. Culturequality begins, in my opinion, exactly there. When we arrive at the enterprise. We are already working in the system, it allows, of course, to avoid mistakes in terms of technological defects, but the defect itself, which is caused by the fact that there is no such culture, but the employee has, of course, of course, this needs to be instilled from the very beginning, but it should be noted that the Industrial Complex remains the flagship of Economic Growth in belarus, production volumes are increasing from year to year. But just producing is not enough, as our president emphasized at the meeting, the main question is to sell the products and get money. Alexander sergeevich, well, we know that at the end of the year the industry as a whole performed well, but nevertheless there are declines in certain Economic Indicators for a number of Large Industrial enterprises, they were stated at this meeting, in particular, i will quote what was recorded. The growth of warehouse inventories is 23 at the end of the year, please tell me what the reasons are, this is insufficient demand for products, and either these are problems in the operation of networks, here how do you think, how to unload the warehouses of our Industrial Enterprises . First, you probably correctly noted that industry was, is, will be our driver of the economy, because it pulls with it a lot of industries that work on industry, that. Consume the results of the work of our industry, we have been growing for the last three years, and we must understand that we are working on the world market, because the system of the ministry of industry sells more than 70 of the produced volume, yeah, to the external circuit, accordingly, we are subject to all cyclical changes, all open processes in foreign markets, and accordingly the level of management, which can assess, most importantly. Predict and predict with a certain accuracy the processes that will occur in the future, in this this, lets call it that, the root of our success is being laid. Why am i talking about this . Because the products in the warehouse are the end of the production cycle, and in general the production cycle itself, it includes not only the production of products, it also includes the production cycle of cash flow that goes to suppliers who must produce their products, and if. For example, take Different Enterprises, then Different Enterprises have different production cycles, for example, microelectronics, which is very common today determines in many industries, the production of individual microcircuits according to the technological cycle requires a nine month production cycle, respectively, if the supplier says to give a ninemonth period for production, then this scheme should be in the warehouse, on the other hand, we have seen a lot, for example, an Assembly Line we understand in. Operations, it takes from two to 3 months, again in production, but we understand what you are talking about, that there is a duration of turnover of working capital, it is determined technologically and by our tv viewers also need to be explained that the presence of finished products in the enterprises warehouse is normal, there should be a stock of finished products in the warehouse, but here we are talking about the fact that, compared to, for example, last year, the growth of boat inventories is increasing, well, practically. By a quarter, that is, this is some kind of alarming trend, that is, the technology has not changed, thats what you noticed absolutely correctly, but i want to repeat once again that we compare time periods year by year, and if last year all the industry grew by 5 billion, that is , the annual volume increased by 5 billion rubles, and the increase in the warehouse amounted to about 350 million, as a percentage you gave a figure, then 350 per 5 billion is insignificant. As it were, a volume that is broken down by time period, but on the other hand, it was said at the meeting that there are several areas in which what i said at the very beginning was influenced in a certain way by the market. Lets not hide these positions, as we know, we have respected refrigerators on our splash screen, that is, we understood that certain changes are taking place in our key market of the Russian Federation, but the depth of these changes is both economic and financial. The possibility of, lets say, competitors from suppliers in the peoples republic of china and the republic of turkey, who entered the market with a similar product with the possibility of providing financial mechanisms for installment sales of these goods, well, in a certain way, it also affected our manufacturers; in principle, we did not lose our share in the past year, because the general market for refrigerators, freezers has decreased, but we have lost in production volumes and in order to maintain economically, well, there is a certain minimum. Level, so as not to fall into a negative line, we have something in stock, but we remember the situation three years ago when the covid times began, our atlant is precisely thanks to the warehouse, well, it worked to zero, when, like this, they were buying up what had not yet been produced, indeed warehouses can also grow due to the fact that we changed the marketing strategy, and this is also a normal situation when we talk about what we need to develop our own Distribution Networks, open more stores and so on, this already. Automatically implies that we need to increase stocks so that the consumer is simply able to, it is called and most importantly because the head of state criticized us for including that the industry, when conditionally the consumer there cannot buy a tractor in one piece, for example, somewhere in some regions of the Russian Federation or somewhere else, that s why here, of course, in order to reach out, for example, to our nontraditional markets. Some kind of hubs for our equipment so that this equipment reaches the consumer faster, so to speak, today i took the advance payment, tomorrow i received a tractor, this is an ideal design, this of course means that we need to increase warehouses, and where is this figure, opinion experts were divided here depending on production, kakgeevich spoke there about. Schemes and so on, but even, for example, in light industry, even 200 , those who have a developed Distribution Network this is a normal level, this is even small, so here, uh, by the way, about warehouses, we already have the results of the First Quarter and we have warehouses, even though our prices have increased, manufacturers by more than 6 , in general, but already with us out of the average monthly production volume, warehouses have already decreased 68. That in the far arc, in Foreign Countries , the situation with exports is worse than in traditional markets, although in general, it should be noted, it is, well, moderately positive, tell me , please, this is what you think is why domestic manufacturers can occupy additional niches in the markets of africa, asia, and latin america. What economic mechanisms are needed to increase exports . To stimulate exports, we, of course, relied on the african market, the latin american market, where we practically do not exist, but our results are not very good. And the markets are huge, if the same african market, conditionally, even if we take reference points, there are four or five countries, conditionally egypt, nigeria, equatorial guinea, african republic, in fact the market volume is more than 100 billion dollars, this market is growing 10 billion dollars a year, yes, that is, imports are growing, so here, of course, it is called unploughed logs, and of course , we have already prepared the appropriate tools all the time. They are being modernized, we are talking about Financial Instruments to support exports, the so called preexport financing, and now it is not Financial Instruments that are actively developing, this is the socalled compensation trade, these are essentially barter transactions on crossborder markets, conditionally often we have african counterparties they say that, due to strict currency legislation, we cannot pay you there. So lets exchange tractors for oranges, or also tractors for diamonds, tractors for diamonds, well , maybe we dont need diamonds, but for example we can exchange oranges and we already have such schemes, there are successful cases of just such an exchange, thats why of course, we have identified strongholds in africa for ourselves and are entering through them, literally, probably there over the last short period in nontraditional markets even. Mutually beneficial cooperation, what belarusian exports are, what difficulties our manufacturers face in the context section, elona volynets discusses, please. Last year, belarusians produced Industrial Products worth approximately 30 billion rubles. We increased the production of electronics, combines, cars and trucks. Against the background of forced withdrawal from western markets, enterprises of the ministry of industry continue to increase exports. In 2023, the figure was 6. 5 billion, and this is a record for the last 10 years. Supplies were reoriented to the market friendly countries, first of all, these are russia and the cis states. Last year , the volume of Industrial Supplies to the Russian Federation amounted to about 6 billion. The export piggy bank has become heavier, largely thanks to blg, bmz, mtz, bilaz, maz, horizon. They are already called the big six. The key goal for everyone is produce. Think more globally and expand the geography of exports. Last year, plus six new markets. Argentina, turkmenistan, kenya, colombia, kuwait and japan. By the way, ours were there agricultural machines, tractors, pumps. Huge demand for Industrial Products in africa, asia, latin america. That is why it is important to have time to occupy your niches there. For example, Food Security is a matter of life and death for african states. Its really needed there. Agricultural machinery and equipment and we have something to offer. There are already agreements on the supply of over 3. 00 tractors, 80 combines and thirty dump trucks to zimbabwe. More than 150 tractors to the togolest republic. Equatorial guinea is eyeing the belarusians. About the seriousness of intentions is eloquently demonstrated by the exchange of visits at the highest level. In the contractual process, slippage is unacceptable. Competitors are on their heels. Overall, on the export road. Not without bumps, not always stable payments for delivered products, that is , they want belarusian goods, but not everyone can buy them right away, here the manufacturers themselves need to avoid accounts receivable, this is a turnover of funds, and investments, lets be honest, there are difficulties with unloading warehouses, inventories over the year increased by almost a quarter, and if some enterprises formed an export portfolio even partially next year, then. Others, to put it mildly, sank, began to produce fewer refrigerators, tractors, loaders, engines, however, in all cases , the engine of development is technological sovereignty, without investment , technologies. Is working to ensure that one tractor, conditionally, gets into foreign markets, but colleagues, developing the topic of export potential, we understand perfectly well that from an economic point of view, in order to benefit the country, well, the economic effect from exports was maximum, we need to work on reducing the share of imports in the price of our products, reducing intermediate consumption and so on, ranging from 60 to 80 to 75 , i will say carefully, 75 are cars with hydromechanical transmissions, 60