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Assistant FAO representavive in Georgia Mamuka Meskhi, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture Revaz asatiani together with the Head of Office of the Austrian Development Agency  Gerhard Schaumberger visited Tsalka Municipality to check the touristic infrastructure established under the FAO’s project entitled “Capacity Development of Agriculture of Georgia.” FAO project funded by...

Next month, some 8,000 farmers in Georgia’s Kakheti region will start receiving free text messages on their mobile phones. The SMS’s will recommend when they should apply treatments to their crops, what kind of how much. The initiative is aimed at reducing the spread of crop diseases. These SMS recommendations will...

Gigla Agulisvhili, the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources Protection, welcomed the first meeting of a new two-year joint project of the Ministry and FAO: Capacity Building for Sustainable Wildlife Management. At the meeting, the legal and institutional frameworks for the management of wildlife, hunting and fishery were discussed. Participants reviewed...

More than 200 IDP families have received small grants under the EU-funded and supported project Equal Economic Opportunities for IDPs. Georgia’s Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili believes that the project will improve socio-economic conditions of Internally-Displaced Persons (IDPs). “We are not only assisting IDPs with housing but also making sure they have...

Georgia’s southern Tsalka region looks forward to welcoming tourists, drawn by the area’s unique natural beauty and cultural monuments. An FAO project financed by Austria has been working with local and national authorities as Tsalka prepares to host agritourists and ecotourists. During 2016, areas for support were identified with the help...