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  • Some 3,200 Tons Of Potatoes Exported From Armenia To Georgia This Ye

    SOME 3,200 TONS OF POTATOES EXPORTED FROM ARMENIA TO GEORGIA THIS YEAR

    YEREVAN, November 8. /ARKA/. Armenia exported 3,200 tons of potatoes
    to Georgia this year, Arthur Nikoyan, chief of the Armenian agriculture
    ministry's phytosanitary inspection, said Friday at a news conference.

    "For comparison, I should say that we exported 1,137 tons of potatoes
    to Georgia in 2012," he said.

    In response to a question whether Georgia may ban the import of
    Armenian potatoes after an infected potato incident, he said that
    there is no such a problem.

    "Potatoes are being exported from Armenia to Georgia every day,"
    he added.

    According to the information received from the Georgian finance
    ministry's state revenue agency in late October, Georgia's customs
    house in Sadakhlo found Ralstonia Solanacearum and Synchytrium
    Endobioticum (Schilb) Perc bacteria in the potatoes sent to Gerogia
    form Armenia.

    Samples of these potatoes were sent to a special laboratory for
    confirmation. It became clear after the laboratory examination that
    114,500 kilograms of potatoes were infected with the bacteria. As a
    result, more than 400 tons of exported potatoes were returned to the
    exporter country.

    The Armenian side denied the infection saying that samples were taken
    not from the Armenian batch and that there is no Ralstonia Solanacearum
    in Armenia. ----0----

    - See more at:
    http://arka.am/en/news/business/some_3_200_tons_of_potatoes_exported_from_armenia_ to_georgia_this_year/#sthash.TvmXnk2O.dpuf

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