Belarus’ brewers are to import about 50 thousand tonnes of malt and malting barley till the beginning of new 2004 (August) harvest, the local authorities has recently posted. To this purpose the government decided to organize tenders. According to analysts, Belarus processed only 19 thousand tones of malting barley instead of 2003 planned 70 thousand tonnes. The fail was attributed to the fact that Belarus barley does not suit the quality standards regarding colour and protein content.

04 February, 2004