"This Is A Disgrace For Lukashenko"
11- 8.07.2026, 7:40
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Our agriculture sector is really a mess.
During a meeting on the development of the Mogilev Region, Lukashenko criticized the situation at two agro-industrial complexes that fall under the Presidential Administration (UDP)—the “Agro-Industrial Holding” and “Kupalovsky.”
He was particularly outraged by the situation at the latter. According to the president, there is a lack of discipline at this flagship agricultural holding: livestock mortality is rising, equipment is not ready for the harvest, and livestock are sometimes left without water.
Lukashenko noted that local authorities are ready to take these enterprises back under their control, since local leaders better understand the region’s needs and can make management decisions more quickly.
“I don’t see a major problem with these farms being transferred to municipal ownership,” he said.
“Filin” asked entrepreneur and former district executive committee official Nikolai Lysenkov why enterprises under the umbrella of the UDP are still inefficient.
— It’s not just these agricultural holdings that are inefficient; it’s the entire agricultural sector in Belarus. A lot of money is being poured into somewhere, and problems are swept under the rug. They’ve simply started pouring less money into these agricultural holdings.
Right now, the Presidential Administration apparently doesn’t have the money to solve these problems, so they’re getting rid of these agricultural holdings, shifting the entire burden onto other people’s shoulders,” Lysenkov tells Filin. — This is how I see it: “We don’t have any money, we can’t handle this—so now you suffer and figure it out, but the result has to look good.”
“You have to understand that no one has ever demanded efficient agriculture during Lukashenko’s rule. It has to operate according to plan: whatever they order, that’s what you have to grow. And they gave money to whoever they could.”
If there’s a wealthy agricultural holding, it means there’s a resourceful manager there: someone who knows where to knock to get money. If they didn’t give any money, then no matter what kind of manager it is—nothing will come of it. We don’t have a business in agriculture; it doesn’t make money, it simply fulfills quotas.
Could this idea of creating agricultural holdings under the Administrative Affairs Department have been successful at all? If success means a pretty picture with clean calves and high salaries—then yes. But at enterprises with no owner, where decisions are made from above, there will be no efficiency.
If the agricultural holdings are eventually transferred to municipal ownership, they’ll become a headache for local executive committees, Lysenkov continues.
“They’ll bend over backward to curry favor and make these enterprises successful. But how? They’ll force enterprises that have funding to support these agricultural holdings at their own expense. But it’s all for show. So that next time Lukashenko comes and says, “Oh, yes, you’ve got things in order.” The goal isn’t for them to become efficient.
Lukashenko often likes to use the word “mess.” And our agriculture sector really is a mess. It will continue until there’s a real leader.
A good leader would never leave his livestock without water. But there are only temporary managers who are waiting to be either promoted, fired, or jailed. In these holding companies, everything piles up like a snowball.
The fact that the calves have no water at the Upravdelami holding company is, first and foremost, a disgrace for Lukashenko. If the mess were limited to just one district, then it would be the district head’s fault. But here, our entire agricultural sector is unprofitable and inefficient, and that is the fault of the country’s leader.
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