Ostrovets District to build greenhouse based on Dutch technologies

OSTROVETS, 13 June (BelTA) – Ostrovets District intends to build a greenhouse complex operating on Dutch technologies, Chairman of the Ostrovets District Executive Committee Adam Kovalko said as he met with Lithuanian journalists, BelTA learnt. The NPP which is to be built in the district will produce a great amount of energy. This can prove beneficial for the locals, Adam Kovalko noted. Having visited the Netherlands he decided to adopt the Dutch experience and to implement a project to build a greenhouse complex using Dutch technologies. There are plans to build a good hothouse to produce flowers. We practically do not have enterprises based on the Dutch technologies in the country. We agreed that if things remain unchanged the Dutch will come to work here, Adam Kovalko said. According to the official, the final decision as to whether involve a Dutch investor is pending. “Yet, there is the agreement. We exchanged the opinion on this project,” Adam Kovalko said. Adam Kovalko informed the journalists about the Ostrovets District development plans. “We are planning to build a 350-bed hospital and retrofit the central hospital into a district one. The Ostrovets NPP will contribute to the development of the network of educational institutions that will train new staff for the plant. Health farms, other medical institutions will be built,” he noted. The Chairman of the Ostrovets District Executive Committee answered the journalists’ questions about the district itself, the reasons for choosing Ostrovets as the site for the future NPP and the investments prospects. Lithuanian journalists arrived in Belarus on 11 June on a media tour which will last until 13 June. The group includes journalists from the First Baltic Channel, the Litovskij Kurier weekly newspaper, Baltios TV and the information agencies BNS and ELTA.

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