Agriculture plays an important role in the economics of Belarus, though its natural conditions are assessed as average by professionals and many of them state that our country is the zone of risky land usage. However, agriculture provides about 9.5 percent of the GDP (the data of 2005). About a third of the population lives in rural areas, 10.6 percent of the employed population worked in the agriculture in 2005. The availability of arable lands in Belarus is the highest in Europe: Read more…
The Belarusian public-service association “Zem-Eco” (Agriculture Ecological) was founded on the basis of Grodno State Agricultural University, and it is the associated IFOAM member. The aim of this association is to coordinate the activity in the agricultural field in Belarus. Now “Zem-Eco” does not exist. Read more…
The study in the field of organic agriculture does not consider to be prospective, although in scientific programs you can meet the terms “ecologization” and “ecological” and some other. Among different trends of scientific workings you can find the practical workings, which can be used in the ecological economy, for example, the development of biological methods of plant protection (Institute of Plant Protection, Institute of Truck Gardening, Institute of Farming and Breeding of the NAS of Belarus). Read more…