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From 17 to 21 September, Georgia is hosting the 28th Regional Conference of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE). About 120 delegates from 53 countries are participating in this conference during which animal health, well-being and food safety issues will be discussed. In addition, recommendations for the epidemiological well-being...

Humankind is in the midst of an unprecedented data-gathering and number-crunching effort, and national statistical offices are on the front line. Giorgi Kvinikadze is FAO statistician for the Europe and Central Asia region, based at the Organization’s regional office here. Kvinikadze spoke recently with senior communication officer Sharon Lee Cowan about...

A two-day workshop on dairy sector development in Armenia and Georgia is organized within the framework of the FAO funded project implemented by the Center for Agribusiness and Rural Development Foundation, in collaboration with the Georgian Farmers Association.  The workshop highlights the challenges associated with dairy value chain development as well...

The traditional festival of Kazbegoba was held in the Mtskheta-Mtianeti region at the same time as the regional-folk festival Phudzeoba and a farmers’ agro-festival. The agro-festival was supported by the European Union and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) under the auspices of the European Neighbourhood Programme...

More than 50 farmers, producers and cooperatives from the Guria region participated in an agricultural festival exhibiting their products including honey, tea, blueberries, strawberries, wine, mineral waters, etc. The main objective of the Ureki festival was to make the locally produced products more popular among tourists and the providers of...