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“For some reason, everyone thinks that a beekeeper should be a man, but that’s not the case here,” states Ketevan Bluishvili, a beekeeper from Matani village of the Kakheti region in eastern Georgia. In some regions, women are even explicitly banned from beekeeping, but in Ketevan’s family, beekeeping is a...

Georgian and Azerbaijani teas took centre stage during an online celebration on the eve of the second International Tea Day. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) hosted the roundtable event to highlight the countries’ potential to produce high...

Darejan is a 49-year old single mother raising her child alone for years. At the same time, she is a farmer engaged in cultivating land, growing tomatoes, cucumbers, potatoes and other vegetables, breeding cows and pigs. In winter, when the tourist season is over, she sells Rachan ham, cheese, dairy...

Have you ever wondered how the famous Georgian chips Frixx travels to market counters? From local farmers, potatoes go to a storage facility run by Mziani Mosavali in a small village Savaneti, in Bolnisi Municipality where potatoes are stored with high standards. Then they are delivered to processing company Wellington that makes...

The region of Kakheti in Georgia is famous for its high-quality hazelnuts. Baia Saluqvadze and her husband, Levan Bolqvadze, took their first steps in the hazelnut business more than seven years ago and decided to explore the immense potential these delicious nuts have to offer. In 2019, they launched a new storage enterprise called...