As of 2017, the industrial output of the region amounted to (~US$5,300 million), or 11.2% of the Belarusian industrial output. Food industry is the leading economy sphere in the region (47.6% of the region's industrial output). The biggest industrial plants in the region are "Savushkin produkt" (dairy products), "Santa Bremor" (fish products), Brestgazoapparat (gas equipment, including "Gefest" cookers; all three are situated in
Brest), "Pinskdrev" in
Pinsk (furniture, matches and other wood products), "Polesie" in
Kobryn (toys and plastic products). Other major factories are machine tool plant "Atlant", cotton factory, military jet fighters repair plant (all three are situated in
Baranavichy (Baranovichi)), sugar plant in
Zhabinka, "Polesie" textile and garment factory in
Pinsk, "Ivacevichidrev" wood products plant in
Ivacevichi, "Granite" quarry in
Mikashevichi, "Belsolod"
malt factory in
Ivanava (the only such plant in Belarus). Food factories in the region produced 153.9 thousand tons of meat and offal in 2017, 90 thousand tons of sausage products, 29.7 thousand tons of meat semi-finished products, 71.8 tons of fish and semi-finished products (including canned fish), 551.9 thousand tons of whole milk products, 47.2 thousand tons of
cottage cheese, 66.1 thousand tons of
cheese, 21.3 thousand tons of
butter, 108.2 thousand tons of flour, 2.5 million
decalitres of
beer and 4.3 million decalitres of distilled alcoholic beverages. Textile and garment factories produced 56,361 thousand m2 of fabrics in 2017, 994 thousand m2 of carpets, 5.9 million pieces of all types of knitwear, 1.9 million pieces of outerwear (except knitwear), 28.4 million pairs of socks and similar hosiery, 623 thousand shoes. Electrical plants in the region produced 242.2 thousand electric engines (alternating current), 4800 transformers, 899 thousand lamps. Brest lamp factory is producing
incandescent light bulbs, 2 factories are engaged in production of
diodes and
printed circuit boards. As of 2017, total cultivated area in the region was 930,000
hectares, including 844,400 hectares of land used by agricultural organizations (mainly state-owned), 17,900 hectares — by the registered farmers, and 67,700 hectares — by personal farms of the population. 383,800 hectares of fields were used to grow
cereals, 52,800 —
rapeseeds, 21,800 —
sugar beets, 5,700 —
flax, 56,300 —
potatoes, 12,700 —
vegetables, 392,800 — feed crops. Big agricultural organizations harvest almost all cereals, flax, sugar beets, rapeseeds and feed crops, while farmers (both registered and not) harvest more than 90% of potatoes (1,144,400 tons of 1,266,200 in the region) and vegetables (409,400 tons of 439,200 in the region). Average
cereal yield in the region in 2017 was 3,480 kg per
hectare (average in Belarus — 3,330),
sugar beet yield — 43,900 kg per hectare (average in Belarus — 49,900),
flax fiber yield — 1,160 kg per hectare (average in Belarus — 920). Due to warm mild climate and personal activity, the region leads in the production of many fruits, vegetables and berries in Belarus. Several villages are widely known as a "cucumber capital", "strawberry capital", "carrot capital", etc. As of 2018, agricultural organizations and farmers kept 861,600 cattle (including 301,100 cows), 491,100 pigs, 10,000 horses, 19,500 sheep, 7,605,000 poultry. In 2017, all types of farms in the region produced 218,700 tons of livestock and poultry meat (in slaughter weight), 1,605,000 tons of milk (second place among the regions of Belarus) and 606.8 million eggs (second place). ==See also==