Special control department of import and export of agricultural products will be established in Armenia

Special control department of import and export of agricultural products will be established in Armenia
ARKA, 09.03.2010

Tigran Sargsyan, Prime Minister of Armenia met with the members of National Association of Farmers and assigned the Armenian Ministry of Agriculture to establish special department jointly with the Association which will deal with regulation of import and export.

Sargsyan emphasized the importance of development of effective cooperation model which will control implementation of joint programs.

The Department will deal with the issues of agriculture, particularly livestock breeding.

“Today we should discuss your visions of the problems and priority issues of the State for the provision of serious progress in the sphere of livestock breeding”, said Sargsyan.

Members of the Association thanked the Prime Minister for the attention of the government regarding agriculture sphere.

They raised a number of issues, mainly related to the sphere of poultry keeping, potato growing, fruit-growing, bee keeping and sheep breeding.

Priority issues were expansion of export opportunities for agricultural products, improvement of legislative field and long-term development model in agriculture.

Sargsyan made relevant assignments to Gerasim Alaverdyan, Armenian Minister of Agriculture for solving the main problems. --0--