Lukashenko Ordered To Salt The Earth

• 10.03.2026, 19:04

The dictator shared a new "idea".

Alexander Lukashenko suggested using a mixture of potassium salt production waste and peat to fertilize sandy soils. He expressed the idea on March 10 at a meeting on the current activities of the National Bank, according to the usurper's press service.

Lukashenko said he is now observing the fields. According to him, there is a problem with places on the hills near the Dzerzhinsk poultry farm - "there is just sandy soil there."

"Why don't we mix organics with peat and mix at least 20 centimeters? It's a completely different soil fertility. They will pay off," argued the dictator.

He went on to say that Belarusian peat is bought in China - they "take it thousands of kilometers away and understand that it will pay off."

"I even thought: what if we take a layer of waste from potassium salts, a layer of organic matter, a layer of peat, mix it all? And what would be the result? Probably, it will not be worse - there is still a part of potassium fertilizers. Plow them in, and then add peat and organic fertilizers.

We need to look at some poor field, poor soil - and we have enough of them there, and I have them under my nose - and try it on some plot. It's not a problem. Maybe we can solve the problem with these dumps, which you had around Soligorsk in your province?", - Lukashenko appealed to Prime Minister Alexander Turchin, who used to be the head of the Ministry of Regional Executive Committee.

Factually, Lukashenko wants to salt the land, because the waste from the production of potash fertilizers (halite dump) is mostly (more than 95%) table salt. The land is not fertilized with it.

But it can be recalled that not for the first year one of "Belaruskali" mining enterprises has been producing "clay mineralized product" - processed (desalted) waste from potash production. Its composition is close to clay soils. But it is proposed to use such a product as "bedding" for landfills or fire breaks, not as fertilizer, notes "Mirror".

"It is necessary to experiment, to do it. A layer of these potash soils, which contain a fair amount of mineral fertilizer, organics, peat - all mixed on sandy soils. Well what it will -- the improvement will be for the soils. But how economically feasible it is - we'll have to experiment. I am also ready to observe," added Lukashenko.