The share of industries in the total industrial output (2018):

Manufacture of foodstuffs, beverages, and tobacco products	25.8%
Textile and garment industry, manufacture of leather and fur products	4%
Manufacture of wooden and paper products, printing industry and distribution of recorded media	5.1%
Production of coke and oil products	17.6%
Chemical industry	10.8%
Pharmaceutical industry	1.3%
Production of rubber and plastic goods, other nonmetal mineral products	7.9%
Metallurgy and manufacture of finished metal products except for machines and equipment	7.6%
Production of computer hardware, electronic and optical devices	1.7%
Production of electric devices	2.8%
Production of machines and equipment, not included in other groups	8%
Production of transport vehicles and equipment	3.6%
Manufacture of other finished products, repair and installation of machines and equipment	3.8%

The Republic of Belarus is a leading producer of tractors in the region accounting for about 80% of the global output of tractors in the Eurasian Economic Union. Our country is also a large producer of grain and fodder harvesters and components.

The share of potash fertilizers is about 15% (or one seventh of the global output), freight vehicles – 5%.

Key belarusian products

freight vehicles, loaders, road and haul trucks tractors, grain and fodder harvesters refrigerators, microwave ovens, electric and gas stoves furniture fertilizers fuels flax fibers chemical fibers and threads meat products dairy products

Production of transport vehicles

Belarus specializes in manufacturing freight vehicles, buses, and rock haulers. The biggest companies are OAO Minsk Automobile Plant (MAZ trademark) – managing company of Belavtomaz Holding Company and Zhodino-based OAO BelAZ – managing company of BelAZ Holding Company. BelAZ accounts for a third of the global market of rock haulers and is one of the world’s leading producers of quarry equipment.

Belarus is also a leading producer of agricultural equipment such as tractors, grain harvesters, all kinds of forage harvesters. OAO Minsk Tractor Works (MTZ trademark) is one of the eight biggest manufacturers of wheeled tractors. Belarusian tractors account for 96% of the global market.

Manufacture of foodstuffs, beverages and tobacco products

The production of foodstuffs is a modern and vigorously developing industry in Belarus. Food-making enterprises account for more than one fourth of the processing industry’s output and ensure the food security of the country. Thanks to the comprehensive modernization and the application of modern production technologies, the enterprises of the sector make high quality products which are in demand in the country and abroad.

Major branches are the manufacture of dairy and meat products (more than 50% of the total output of foodstuffs, including beverages and tobacco products). Besides, Belarus is a strong producer of sugar and confectionery, canned fish, fruit and vegetables.

The biggest enterprises of the industry are OAO Savushkin Product, the Belarusian-German joint enterprise Santa Bremor, OAO Slutsk Cheese Factory, OAO Babushkina Krynka, OAO Bellakt, OAO Molochny Gostinets, OAO Spartak, SOAO Kommunarka, OAO Brest Meat Packing Plant, OAO Bereza Cheese Factory, OAO Milkavita, OAO Volkovysk Meat Packing Plant, OAO Molochny Mir, OAO Grodno Meat Packing Plant, OAO Minsk Meat Packing Plant.