Another Problem With The Regime
- 30.05.2025, 9:35
Belarus may run out of cows and pigs after potatoes.
The old potatoes are running out in Belarus, and the new ones are not going to start yet. But Lukashenka did his best. He gave valuable instructions and, traditionally, promised that we would not suffer for long. And now we have new worries. Because after potatoes Belarus may run out of cows and pigs.
"It's getting to the horror. Well, it's a nightmare. It's unacceptable," said Lukashenko on Thursday at a meeting with the new government.
And indeed. If a year ago the situation with the death of various cattle in Belarus was just a nightmare, now it's a nightmare and horror.
Last year, the number of cattle in Belarus has decreased by more than 100 thousand. In 2023, when Lukashenko called the situation with cattle deaths a nightmare, it was 13 times less.
The situation with pigs is even worse. Last year Belarus lost 250 thousand pigs. In Volozhin district, there are no pigs left at all at pig-breeding complexes. All 75 thousand heads, which were registered there at the beginning of the year, have died out.
"What do the statistics say? The death rate has reached a historical maximum," said Lukashenko.
And if in the case of potato shortage in Belarus, the authorities refer to the poor harvest in Russia, there is no one to blame for the untimely death of cows and pigs. No epidemic outbreak of African plague or foot-and-mouth disease has been recorded neither in Belarus, nor in neighboring countries.
According to the report of the SCC on the results of the inspection of 11 farms in Vitebsk voblast, the main causes of the deaths were: "violation of the technology of cattle housing and feeding, failure to timely treat and vaccinate animals, negligence of livestock workers to their duties".
That is, in fact, nothing new. Because cows and pigs in Belarus have been dying out for not the first year. It's just that last year this extinction reached especially noticeable proportions.
And not for the first year Lukashenko has been threatening to put all those responsible in jail. But the only result is that the perpetrators try to make sure that the cattle deaths are not caught by the competent authorities.
According to Prosecutor General Shved, last year the prosecutor's office initiated 295 criminal cases for attempts to conceal the facts of cattle deaths. Apparently, there are many more facts of concealment for which no criminal cases were brought. So there may actually be fewer pigs and cows than the statistics show.
Andrei Bronishevsky, planbmedia.io