According to Alexander Kosinets, 228 dairy farms are being reconstructed in the region this year. There are still 77 farms with manual milking, which house 12.5 thousand cows. "It is necessary to decide what to do with them: reconstruct them, re-profile them for calf fattening, or demolish them and build modern dairy complexes in their place. We should not have any farms with bucket milking by the end of the year," the governor said.

On November 20, 2012, the regional stage of the republican review-competition of Ded Moroz and Snegurochka "Yolka-FEST – 2012" will be held at the State Institution of Additional Education "Vitebsk Palace of Children and Youth Creativity" (Vitebsk, Kosmonavtov St., 2).

The Week of Kazakh Cinema, dedicated to the Day of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the 20th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Kazakhstan, opens today in Vitebsk.

All 6,344 polling stations in Belarus have closed, and precinct commissions have begun counting the votes. The elections took place in all 110 constituencies.

Open Joint Stock Company "Glubokoye Dairy Canning Plant" invested more than Br100 billion in fixed assets in 2012, the enterprise informed a BELTA correspondent.

The preparation of fodder crops is carried out by all districts of the Vitebsk region, the committee for agriculture and food of the regional executive committee informed a BELTA correspondent.

A delegation from the Vitebsk region visited the First China (Heilongjiang) Trade and Economic Exhibition, which took place in Minsk from October 9 to 11 and was organized with the assistance and participation of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.