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    ARMENIA TO IMPLEMENT SEVERAL MAJOR AGRICULTURAL PROJECTS IN 2012: PRIME MINISTER

    ARKA
    oct 14, 2011

    YEREVAN, October 14. / ARKA /. Armenia emphasizes the importance
    of cooperation with international organizations in the field of
    agriculture and plans to implement next year a number of large
    projects, prime minister Tigran Sarkisian said at the opening of the
    first world Armenian agricultural forum.

    He highlighted an array of projects implemented with the support of
    the U.S.-government's Millennium Challenges Corporation worth a total
    of $177 million, resulting in new and upgraded irrigation systems
    and infrastructure.

    He said World Bank has funded a set of other programs aimed at rural
    development and increase of opportunities for farmers.

    "The importance of these programs lies in the fact that thanks to the
    support of experts, farmers were given new knowledge, technology and
    machinery", Sarkisian said.

    He said the government will utilize a World Bank loan to create
    cooperatives that will allow to increase the productivity by 30%. The
    prime minister said the national agricultural sector has challenges and
    achievements, and stressed that Armenia was the first of the former
    Soviet Union constituent republics to introduce market mechanisms
    in agriculture.

    The prime minister said Armenia differs from other countries by the
    fact that it has 340 thousand farms and only 430,000 hectares of land.

    Overall some 1000 people representing the sector are taking part in the
    gathering, 700 of them are Armenian farmers and managers of processing
    enterprises. Forty people have arrived from Russia, Ukraine, Georgia,
    Lebanon, Iran, Poland, Latvia, USA and France.

    Nagorno-Karabakh has also sent a delegation.

    On 15 October the participants will take part in Harvest Festival in
    Ararat and meet with people from local processing enterprises and on
    October 16 North Avenue, in downtown Yerevan will host celebration
    of the Day of Agricultural Workers.

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