onions along this along that, there were no roads, we all went to the city of pinsk, we only sailed on a motor ship, there were motor ships big and small, the road was only on water, my grandfathers sailed, they all sailed along the road, they went for bread, for everything, there were no more floods, there is no water at all, and there are no flowers, pull there, where you, well, where you went. the foundation of your life, and that the city is like a transitory such housing of ours, by the way, it is a city, we are destroying any city, intuitively they do not want to be there for a long time, it is all a pull, asphalt, concrete, everything, these are cars, gases, and the village is in the eyes of any civilization, that is, human, all these auls, stanitsas, villages, hamlets, here... without

them humanity is finishing again, that is , the villages are disappearing, the nation is disappearing, unfortunately, it is very important, of course, that my children, and my grandchildren, and great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren come here, so that they are drawn, attracted here, we are in the village, in the central part, not far from here on the right side. in our village in the twenty-sixth year, here such a unique drawing of this church of ours has been preserved beautiful, then i did, i was 10 years old, then intuitively, i came home with a briefcase after lunch, i take out all the books from the briefcase, here is the document how the most important document on the lands was preserved, on the wall-cuts that belonged to our church on the lakes, also the same handwriting to... there was another

little drop here, here the artist drew them both, why were there two, because one was like a conqueror, people were healthy and animals, so people, well, thanks to the attitude to god, strengthened their way of life, their health, i learned that our village was founded in 1378. in this there was our church of saint paraskeva here is a cross people installed in memory of the former shrine, although it was a shrine, if it will be in our memory, it was a very beautiful church for 26 years, and was on such interesting trips super such cool in washington in new york traveled through europe, that is, i have no days off. that is, i have been working for 26 years

day and night, i am so happy that the life, did it was, that we live, every day, this is heaven on earth, that is, this is a holiday, every day is a holiday on earth, for each of us, so we need to be aware of everything.

hello, well, let me introduce our guest anton dudarenok, an analyst at the belarusian institute for strategic studies. good afternoon. hello. well, today we will talk about food security. this is not an idle question, it is a serious question. in fact , in the early 2000s we had several programs, state programs, export, housing, food. and food most often even came first. because in those years, since these programs were adopted and implemented, which means there were problems with these issues, i would like, anton sergeevich, for you to formulate more clearly for our viewers and listeners what food security is, because many people eat simple food and some tasty things, but if we are talking about food security, this is a broader concept, it affects - at

such a state level, the entire chain of production, preparation, creation of conditions, and distribution is interested, that is, this extensive. absolutely right, we provide for ourselves, i think last year we were definitely in the top of the world ranking of countries in food security, this year, most likely, we will repeat this achievement, and

if we talk about export, then our list is quite wide, these are 107 countries of the world, where we supply our products, and we have some developments taking into account... our reorientation of commodity flows to countries in asia, africa, latin america, but the main part is the russian direction. the european union, europe, let's say, it's probably better to say, we also have a european direction, but due to some sanctions restrictions that the west has imposed on belarus for several years, and naturally this direction has significantly, let's say, lost relevance, or is it our dairy. or is it meat? i can't tell you right away, they have their own nomenclature, but it seems to me that there will be a fairly wide list, because we have something to offer for deliveries abroad,

well, and look, it is very important supply not raw materials, but as in all spheres of industries, probably, the same as well , let's take wood, it's better. to process it and sell the goods that have added value, that's the same thing, probably, in our agricultural theme, today we are able to sell processing, or still, here the president, probably, not in vain pays so much attention to the agricultural theme, probably, we have not yet quite reached the level that is necessary, when we can earn in really establish contact.

and we produce so much, apparently not yet we can't, yeah, yeah, naturally, we 'll never be able to produce as much, uh, as china consumes, but nevertheless, we've already entered this, let's say, competition for the chinese market, although who are we competing with - with the whole world, that is, for example, and among the leaders in imports to china are the eu countries, germany. the netherlands, they are also interested in supplies both from china and to china. and the same route, china -europe, which has been talked about quite often, for several years now, it still maintains its intensity and its dynamics,

even, well, including supplies through belarus. in my opinion, in july, the volume of annual.

is equal to 10%, that is, its capacity, 10 of the required, and so this is a disaster? yes, yes, therefore, this country is critically, vitally dependent on... external supplies, the same thing there, again, if we take africa, in sudan the internal conflict continues, in my opinion, if you look at the numbers, so by the numbers, almost 26 million people in sudan are now experiencing difficulties in food, and more than half of the regions.

namely, the economic trade interaction has grown somewhere in the order of, well , in the order of, yes, more than twice for us in order to establish new contacts in order to more actively communicate with the sco member countries both in relation to food products and, for example , the same potassium supplies, well, this topic is very interesting, how are we

doing with potash fertilizers, do we trade, or is it that what the collective west is doing is hindering us, it is hindering us, and those countries where these fertilizers are simply necessary, they do not reach, naturally, it is hindering us, but we and belarus and russia have learned to cope with sanctions, even if... look at the pace of our economic development, another thing is that this is reflected in the whole world, again, quite recently, and i think in july the un report on food security was also released, it says that the goal of sustainable development number two is to achieve zero hunger by 2030, and this is not at all the case now, and this is acknowledged by the authors of the report, that is... they directly write that we - in the global context of the level of global

food security has slipped back 15 years to 2008-9, that is, now again, according to un experts, every eleventh person in the world is starving, of which every fifth is in africa, that is, here we see that the sanctions are working, but not at all where they should, where they planned, where they planned? yes, it turns out that the goals are being set that are unrealistic, yes, based on what you are saying now, if we have slipped back 15 years, to 2030, there are only 6 years left, we want zero hunger, every eleventh person in africa is starving, then, probably, it is unrealistic, yes, it means that the international community is going somewhere wrong, apparently, we need to tell them, maybe from our side, i think that...

but purely geographically, this is ukrainian, which is now going under the control of western grain and some other corporations, but this process is the price for the supply of weapons to ukraine, which is precisely the sale of strategic assets, on which the future of the country depends,

the future of the ukrainian people, and the same grain deal, if we recalled it, last year, and practically in a short time we saw how ukrainian grain settles in neighboring countries, in poland, in romania, in hungary, in slovakia, and thereby undermines, well, as it were, the economic base of farmers in these countries, and we saw these protests, we saw that this was a threat

of great destabilization in the states neighboring ukraine, but now... again , time has passed, some specific measures have been taken, and ukraine continues to supply its grain, but already, let's say, there is no such shocking effect on neighboring countries, although, let's say, it is also difficult for farmers to continue to stay afloat, afloat, yes, if you take the statistics, in the first half of the year ukraine exported goods for almost 20 billion dollars and... the greater half of 12 and 12.5 billion is food, this is food and it is due to the supply of food, due to those resources that still remain in ukraine, the country's economy is still, let's say, more or less, but holding on, well anyway, you see, we know

the information, we receive that there is no one to work in ukraine today, well , yes... especially for men, it is very difficult, now, in many ways, maybe that is why not only the same odessa port is operating, but also a lot of food, a lot of ukrainian products are delivered through romanian, danube, black sea ports, through the land bridge to the european union, that is , maybe even some of the capacities have been moved from ukraine.

no, even taking into account that, well, yes, i agree with you, although in principle, probably, it would be correct, because it is originally, well, if we talk about belarus, russia and ukraine, well, naturally, originally, yes, but now, let's say, geopolitics, international turbulence are making their own amendments to this, to this rule, well, let's return to our country, the president, we have already talked about this today, a lot of attention.

taking into account the need to restructure supply routes, we must also look for some options, improve them, we must develop our logistics capacities, the ability to preserve and deliver our products so that the consumer, even there among the countries... well, even if we look at the media effect, we see that it worked, because we simply took this meme, belarusian potatoes, there bulbashi

and so on, and profitably, well, you could say, sold it in terms of information and here at this professional level, and are ready to deliver our products to any point in the world, where they are waiting for us, well... try to find, use all available opportunities and in principle we do this, now, if we take plans for 2024,

we have a figure of 9 billion dollars, equivalent to 9 billion dollars of supplies of our export products, and accordingly, if we compare with last year, there was...