“If we eat potatoes, as we write in Tiktok, we won’t be thin. Once a week, two maximum, and then baked, puree,” Lukashenko said.
He mentioned recent problems with the presence of potatoes and noted that now products of a new crop are already appearing.
“Now he called [сельхозпроизводителей]: You are so many blanks, so many, so much. How much is needed – in the reserve, keep it, but to have enough. I understand, of course, in Russia two to three times more expensive were potatoes. Someone wants to earn money: the peasants were taken out, farmers were taken out, on the one hand. Well, on the other hand, some sabotage was found there somewhere, ”Lukashenko said.
Context
In May, Belarusian “Mirror” It wrote about the deficit of potatoes in Belarus in recent months. According to the media, Lukashenko Recognized This problem suggested that the Belarusians “get out of another month”, plant potatoes and “sell it at a good price”.
Lukashenko also called the population Plant more potatoessince the frosts uncharacteristic for May did their dirty business: in the main market of Belarus-in the Russian Federation-a lot of potatoes froze, so “there is an opportunity to earn some kind of penny.”
On May 27, the illegitimate president of Russia Vladimir Putin, after a meeting with representatives of agribusiness, announced a lack of potatoes in the Russian Federation and offered to buy it from Belarus, but Lukashenko informed him that he also had no potato.
