Deputy: Uncultivated agricultural land in Armenia is 115 thousand hectares

Deputy: Uncultivated agricultural land in Armenia is 115 thousand hectares
ARKA, 24.03.2010

Total uncultivated agricultural land in Armenia is 115 thousand ha, said Bagrat Sargsyan, Deputy of Armenian Parliament from opposition party “Dashnaktsutyun”, member of standing committee on agricultural and nature protection issues. “Currently Armenia processes about 300-305 thousand ha of land, but the total territory is about 420 thousand ha. Unprocessed land makes 110 thousand ha”, he said during the press-conference on Wednesday. The main reason of not processing the land by people is fragmentation of the land into small land plots. Such conditions result in unprofitable processing of agricultural land. In Armenia agricultural land is divided into 1.2 million land plots and the total number of agricultural farms is 339.2 thousand. “Such a division into land plots makes difficult to work efficiently and intensive in the farms”, said Sargsyan. G.K. --0--