YEREVAN. – Armenia and Belarus plan to create a joint venture to assemble agricultural machinery.

The matter was discussed during the Monday meeting of Armenian Agriculture Minister Sergo Karapetyan and his Belarus counterpart Leonid Zayats, BELTA reported.

Armenia would like to cooperate in areas like seed breeding, cattle breeding, supplies of mineral fertilizers and pesticides.

“We are also very interested in purchasing Belarusian farm machines. We have agreed that this year we will start setting up a joint venture to assemble agricultural machines in Armenia,” the agency quotes Karapetyan.

The sides discussed possible creation of joint ventures in other areas, including joint ventures to bottle vegetable oil and companies to process and bottle Belarusian milk in Armenia .The parties are mutually interested in supplying Armenian canned goods and brandy to Belarus.

The Belarus delegation headed by President Alexander Lukashenko is on an official visit to Armenia. After the talks, the sides plan to sing a number of bilateral documents.