Belarus

Public Sector

Ministry of Agriculture and Foodhttp://mshp.minsk.by, http://mshp.minsk.by/en

Agricultural extension and advisory services are for the most part represented by the public organizations (state research institutes, local government agencies):

Belarusian State Agricultural Academy,www.baa.by

Vitebsk State Academy of Veterinary Medicine,www.vsavm.com

Grodno State Agrarian University,www.ggau.by

Belarusian State Agri-Technical University

Brest Oblast Agricultural Committee

Vitebsk Oblast Agricultural Committee

Mogilev Oblast Agricultural Committee

Gomel Oblast Agricultural Committee

Minsk Oblast Agricultural Committee

Grodno Oblast Agricultural Committee

Livestock Institute

Crop Production Institute

Potato Growing Institute

Fruit Growing Institute

Vegetable Production Institute

Institute of Agricultural Mechanization

Non-Governmental Organizations

Very few NGO, if any, are involved in providing extension and advisory services.

International Foundation for Rural Development, IFRD
- has 3 affiliates throughout Belarus partially functioning as “extension services”.

Director Serguey Tarasyuk
62 Kazintsa Street, office # 910
Minsk, Belarus
www.ifrd.by/eng

Farmer Based Organizations

Farmer Based Organizations are represented by the regional farmers’ associations. The main goal of the associations (registered as non-commercial organizations) is lobbying the farmers’ interest. To some extend they are involved in providing agricultural consulting services to its members.

Gomel Regional Private Farmers’ Association
Bayda Mikhail Leontievich – Chairman
143 Sovetskaya Street, office # 502, Gomel, Belarus
(0232) 57-48-51 [office phone]
Grodno Regional Private Farmers’ Association Ushkevich Vladimir Vitalievich – Chairman
2 Lermontova Street, office # 4, Grodno, Belarus
(0152) 74-22-06 [office phone]
Minsk Regional Private Farmers’ Association
Kovalyov Nikolay Dmitrievich - Chairman
5a Chkalova Street, office # 214
(017) 252-43-52 [office phone]
+375 29 750-72-24 [cell phone]
Brest Regional Private Farmers’ Association
Vorobey Konstantin Kuzmich – Chairman
(0162) 49-05-90 [office phone]
+375 29 622-05-50 [ cell phone]
Mogilev Regional Private Farmers’ Association
Latyshkevich Pavel Konstantinovich
(0222) 22-42-44 [office phone]

List of Extension Providers

The following list shows an excerpt from the GFRAS Directory of Extension Providers for Belarus. Some of these entries may be specially marked for having more detailed information in the database of the Worldwide Extension Study WWES.