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EU and FAO gathered stakeholders from the public and private sectors to discuss the main findings of the evaluation of the National Strategy for the Agricultural Extension in Georgia 2017-2020. At the online seminar, international expert introduced the summary of the progress made under the implementation period, highlighting the main...

Georgian specialists from the State Laboratory of Agriculture (SLA) and the Scientific Research Center of Agriculture (SRCA) were trained in several agricultural science institutions of Bordeaux, France. The study tour was organized by EU and FAO under the EU Innovative Action for Private Sector Competitiveness in Georgia, a project implemented...

In the last two years, FAO and the European Union (EU) awarded a total amount of circa USD 5.1 million as a matching grant to the agricultural producers in Georgia. The grant support co-funds various capital investments in Georgia’s agriculture sector to increase competitiveness, create extra jobs, and ensure stability...

When Zaza Ivanidze and his wife, Tinatin Chilingarashvili, first baked bread using flour from the ancient and endangered, local red wheat variety, akhaltsikhe tsiteli doli, on his tiny farm in Georgia, he found the taste took him on a nostalgic journey into the past. “At first we were amazed by its flavor,...

Georgia’s National Animal Identification and Traceability System (NAITS) is now fully operational as a result of FAO’s one of the major, a 5-year long project implemented in Georgia. The NAITS project collects and records information regarding mandatorily identifiable animals, their keepers and keeping locations all around Georgia. FAO and Georgia’s...