Vitebsk fruit and vegetable processing plant increased exports by 3.5 times in January-May

June 26 Minsk /Tatsiana Lobas - BELTA/. JSC "Vitebsk Fruit and Vegetable Canning Plant" exported products worth $229 thousand in January-May, which is 3.5 times more than in the same period last year, the enterprise's director Rostislav Goshko told a BELTA correspondent. According to preliminary data, by the end of the first half of the year, exports will exceed $320 thousand. The main products supplied to the foreign market are baby food preserves and carrot puree semi-finished product in aseptic packaging. Supplies are made to the Russian Federation - to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kostroma, and Tver. An agreement on supplies to the Kaliningrad region has recently been reached. Last year, trial batches of baby food were shipped to Kazakhstan. The products of the Vitebsk plant were well-received there, and a decision was made on stable supplies this year. Currently, the possibility of shipping baby food to Kyrgyzstan is also being explored. Trial batches have been supplied to Ukraine. Work is underway to obtain state hygienic registration in Ukraine to organize stable supplies. Options for supplying baby food to Armenia and Azerbaijan are being considered. In January-May of this year, the enterprise produced 1.5 million conventional cans of baby food preserves, which is almost 1.7 times more than in the same period last year. By the end of the year, it is planned to produce at least 3.9 million conventional cans of baby food preserves, or 40% more. Baby food production has become the main focus of the plant. The workshop capacity is 7 million conventional cans per year. The enterprise has implemented a quality system based on HACCP principles, which covers the entire process of production and storage of fruit and vegetable preserves and semi-finished purees for their production. All baby food recipes for the enterprise are developed by the Scientific and Practical Center for Foodstuffs of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Currently, the range of baby food preserves includes 50 items, more than half of which are fruit and vegetable purees. In baby food production, technologists focus on using natural raw materials grown in Belarus, based on apples and carrots with the addition of various fruit and berry components - cherries, plums, blueberries, black currants, cranberries, chokeberries, and lingonberries. Vitebsk Fruit and Vegetable Canning Plant was founded in 1993 and was corporatized in 2008. The enterprise specializes in the production of fruit and berry and vegetable preserves for baby food, semi-finished purees, and aseptically canned products. -0-