By 2020, Belarus plans to increase exports of crop production to $ 500 million, said the head of the department of foreign economic activity of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus, Aleksey Bogdanov, on February 16. In 2016, exports of plant products reached a level of 380 million dollars, and in 2020 the country should reach a figure of 500 million dollars. This is an ambitious and difficult task, but Belarus should diversify the market, deepen the processing of the harvest industry, and also find new commodity items for export, said A. Bogdanov.
In 2016, Belarus exported food products in the amount of 4.16 billion dollars. The share of crop production was 9.1%. 
