Residents of Sharkovshchina addressed the President with the issue of creating new jobs during the 'Big Conversation'

The Sharkovshchina District Executive Committee explained that as of March 1, 2019, the registered unemployment rate in the district was 0.5% of the economically active population. There are 28 people registered as needing employment, with 74 vacancies available.

Irena Buko, Deputy Chairperson of the District Executive Committee, reported that five new enterprises were opened in 2017, which made it possible to employ 56 people. The same number of people found employment in 2018 thanks to the creation of seven more enterprises.

Since 2017, LLC "Drev-Invest" has been successfully engaged in wood processing, employing 21 people. By the way, two more new enterprises in the wood processing sector were registered last year. They also plan to expand their staff.

In particular, LLC "Production complex for wood waste processing" intends to acquire a disused building belonging to OJSC "Sharkovshchina Agrotechservice". This will allow for an increase in the volume of products manufactured and exported, and an increase in the number of vacancies, in addition to the six previously created.

LLC "M WOOD EXPORT" has obtained the right to conclude a land lease agreement for an area of over 2 hectares for the construction of a new production facility. The investor is already preparing the project. The construction of a wood processing enterprise in the urban settlement will create jobs for about 30 people.

In addition, in 2018, the "Hanna" shop-culinary of OJSC "Vitebsk Broiler Factory" appeared in the district center, a new retail facility "Myasnaya Lavka" of CJSC "Vitebskagroproduct" was built and commissioned, and LLC "Retail Standard" opened the "Magiya" store.