Lukashenko Is Killing Agriculture
- 29.05.2025, 15:10
The fight against livestock grazing has reached a climax.
At a meeting with the renewed government, Alexander Lukashenko once again made a ruckus about the death of cattle. According to him, the death rate has reached a historical maximum. On the eve, the ruler announced that this year "there will be a very cruel conversation about the cattle deaths.
- How can one allow the death of these little babies - calves? How can that be allowed to happen? We'll talk about that separately. I don't want this most important issue of agriculture to be hidden behind the list of issues that I have outlined," the ruler is quoted by Telegram-channel Pool One.
Previously, Lukashenko spoke angrily about the cattle decline in April this year. Then he wrote the veterinarian into the "enemies of the people":
- The two of you will answer to the full extent for hiding the deaths and dead meat," Lukashenko threatened the head of Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee Alexander Subbotin and the chairman of Orsha District Executive Committee Igor Moroz.
The cattle deaths are not a new problem for Belarus. From year to year, Lukashenko threatens to punish all those involved, but the situation is only getting worse. However, this does not prevent the ruler from "saving" calves, piglets and other animals again and again.
"Salidarnasts" collected his statements of the past years.
When visiting Vetkov district in 2019:
- I repeat once again for the government and for the future: you will go to jail for cattle deaths. 85,000, I think, according to last year. You can imagine how much meat that would be.
When traveling to Starodorozhsky District in 2019:
- Everyone will be held accountable for this. Why would we plow the land, produce feed - for dead cows and bulls or calves? No one needs that. It's blatant mismanagement, it's just a crime. There will be the cruelest showdown over cattle deaths.
At a meeting with the leadership of the Council of Ministers in 2022:
- It is simply intolerable to look at your figures of cattle deaths and lack of cattle. We are losing millions of rubles on the spot. I demand from the Prosecutor General's Office and the State Control Committee, the Administration (you can involve anyone) to immediately report to me on how things are.
Visiting Grodno region in 2023:
- There should be no cattle grazing at all. Except in exceptional cases. It is necessary to take away. Until they work out the technologies in negligent farms. Why don't we bring him the cattle from the negligent farms and give them to him?! He wouldn't say no. Those who can't keep calves under a month old should be taken away. It should be ironclad.
At the economic meeting in 2024:
- This is blatant mismanagement. If a cow died in the village, it was a tragedy of universal proportions. Now for some reason they are used to hiding behind norms and standards. It's horrible! What are these norms on cattle deaths?
The time Lukashenko is dealing with cattle deaths, the number of pigs, according to the data for 2024, has decreased 1.6 times, cows - 1.5 times, "Pozirk" reported.
And here is the peak of the history of "rescue" - the deaths have reached a historical maximum. It seems to be the case when without the services of the "savior" the chances of survival of Belarusian steers would have been much higher.