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Institutional support to Rural Development Policy in Georgia and international experience in this field were the main topics of a workshop on November 25, 2016, organized, by the European Union (EU), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), within the European Neighbourhood...

Improved standards for food safety and animal health should make Georgia’s agriculture sector more competitive. That is exactly the objective of a new US$5 million project launched recently by FAO and Georgia’s Ministry of Agriculture. The four-year project – financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the Austria Development...

Continuous improvement of Georgia’s agriculture, food safety, veterinary services and plant protection – and its response to climate change, biodiversity and other environmental issues – are the priorities set out in a new agreement with FAO signed here today. Georgian Minister of Agriculture Levan Davitashvili signed the “FAO Country Programming Framework...

The Scientific-Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture (SRCA) in collaboration with FAO carries out measures necessary to improve seed and planting material certification system in Georgia. Specialists in Seed and Planting Material Standard and Certification Service conduct field inspections of seed plots (wheat, barley, corn, sunflower, and soybean) on farms...

UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) with financial support of Austrian Development Agency (ADA) provided Zugdidi Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture with equipment and reagents that give it the capacity to study the microbiological and chemical properties of hazelnuts. Hazelnut producers and all the interested parties now have the opportunity...