Lukashenko demanded to urgently solve the problem of livestock deaths in Belarus

The problem of livestock deaths in Belarus needs to be urgently addressed before food shortages occur in the country. This was stated by President of the Republic Alexander Lukashenko at a visiting seminar on agriculture on June 17.

"If there is a cattle death like now or yesterday, it will all continue — you will tell me fairy tales, as if you don't know where I come from — and cattle will die, we will come to the point that we will have nothing to eat ourselves," he said in a video posted on the Telegram channel."Pool one."

According to Lukashenko, the country's agriculture has found itself in a difficult situation due to problems with discipline.

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At a meeting with the leadership of the Council of Ministers on May 29, Lukashenko said that livestock deaths in Belarus had reached a historic maximum, and those responsible should be punished. According to him, the death of livestock destroys the entire livestock industry in the country.