In his address, Lukashenko added: “Mobilise everyone, it is reported to me that in our secondary school it is forbidden to involve school children to pick up apples, or as we used to do: potatoes, beetroot, flax and so on.
“I cannot imagine greater savagery… We somehow try to educate our schoolchildren, our children. What will you use? Talking? You can’t educate them by talking.
“We went to the potato harvest in September, students and so on. This unites people brings them together, they understand and what it is.
“So mobilise students, workers, civil servants, other people to help us remove it all because we can earn good money, not now but by Spring. Look out for stabilisation funds, so that people have something to eat, so that prices of potatoes and carrots, beets, which we produce do not rise up.
“We shall sort out the prices of imported goods, the main thing is that our similar products should be under control as regards the pricing. Do what we can this year, please get involved and finish the agricultural year with dignity.”