Lukashenko appoints assistant Sergei Bartosh new Belarusian Minister of Agriculture and Food

MINSK. Aug 8 (Interfax) - Sergey Bartosh, who previously worked as Assistant to the President - Inspector for the Gomel Region, has been appointed the new Agriculture and Food Minister of Belarus, the Pool Pervogo Telegram presidential news channel said.

Alexander Lukashenko dismissed Igor Brylo, the previous Minister of Agriculture and Food, at the end of July. He had held the post since February 2022.

Bartosh was born in 1974 in the Brest region. In 1995 he graduated from the Grodno State Agricultural Institute; in 2006, the Institute for Advanced Studies and Retraining of the Brest State Technical University; and in in 2012, the Academy of Management under the President with a degree in agronomy, management in the agro-industrial complex and management of enterprises of the agro-industrial complex.

He was head of the Linovskoye agricultural enterprise in the Pruzhany district of the Brest region for over 10 years. Since 2016, he has been working in the local government system. He was deputy chairman, and then first deputy chairman of the Kobrin district executive committee, then worked as head of the committee for agriculture and food of the Brest regional executive committee.

Prior to his appointment as Assistant to the President in October last year, he served as Chairman of the Berezovsky district executive committee in 2020-2022.