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ARMENIA TO IMPLEMENT SEVERAL MAJOR AGRICULTURAL PROJECTS IN 2012: PRIME MINISTER
ARKA
oct 14, 2011
YEREVAN, October 14. / ARKA /. Armenia emphasizes the importance
of cooperation with international organizations in the field of
agriculture and plans to implement next year a number of large
projects, prime minister Tigran Sarkisian said at the opening of the
first world Armenian agricultural forum.
He highlighted an array of projects implemented with the support of
the U.S.-government's Millennium Challenges Corporation worth a total
of $177 million, resulting in new and upgraded irrigation systems
and infrastructure.
He said World Bank has funded a set of other programs aimed at rural
development and increase of opportunities for farmers.
"The importance of these programs lies in the fact that thanks to the
support of experts, farmers were given new knowledge, technology and
machinery", Sarkisian said.
He said the government will utilize a World Bank loan to create
cooperatives that will allow to increase the productivity by 30%. The
prime minister said the national agricultural sector has challenges and
achievements, and stressed that Armenia was the first of the former
Soviet Union constituent republics to introduce market mechanisms
in agriculture.
The prime minister said Armenia differs from other countries by the
fact that it has 340 thousand farms and only 430,000 hectares of land.
Overall some 1000 people representing the sector are taking part in the
gathering, 700 of them are Armenian farmers and managers of processing
enterprises. Forty people have arrived from Russia, Ukraine, Georgia,
Lebanon, Iran, Poland, Latvia, USA and France.
Nagorno-Karabakh has also sent a delegation.
On 15 October the participants will take part in Harvest Festival in
Ararat and meet with people from local processing enterprises and on
October 16 North Avenue, in downtown Yerevan will host celebration
of the Day of Agricultural Workers.
ARKA
oct 14, 2011
YEREVAN, October 14. / ARKA /. Armenia emphasizes the importance
of cooperation with international organizations in the field of
agriculture and plans to implement next year a number of large
projects, prime minister Tigran Sarkisian said at the opening of the
first world Armenian agricultural forum.
He highlighted an array of projects implemented with the support of
the U.S.-government's Millennium Challenges Corporation worth a total
of $177 million, resulting in new and upgraded irrigation systems
and infrastructure.
He said World Bank has funded a set of other programs aimed at rural
development and increase of opportunities for farmers.
"The importance of these programs lies in the fact that thanks to the
support of experts, farmers were given new knowledge, technology and
machinery", Sarkisian said.
He said the government will utilize a World Bank loan to create
cooperatives that will allow to increase the productivity by 30%. The
prime minister said the national agricultural sector has challenges and
achievements, and stressed that Armenia was the first of the former
Soviet Union constituent republics to introduce market mechanisms
in agriculture.
The prime minister said Armenia differs from other countries by the
fact that it has 340 thousand farms and only 430,000 hectares of land.
Overall some 1000 people representing the sector are taking part in the
gathering, 700 of them are Armenian farmers and managers of processing
enterprises. Forty people have arrived from Russia, Ukraine, Georgia,
Lebanon, Iran, Poland, Latvia, USA and France.
Nagorno-Karabakh has also sent a delegation.
On 15 October the participants will take part in Harvest Festival in
Ararat and meet with people from local processing enterprises and on
October 16 North Avenue, in downtown Yerevan will host celebration
of the Day of Agricultural Workers.