PM: Anti-crisis Plan to Ensure Agriculture Workers Keep Jobs

"Our farmers are given an incentive through state programs to continue or start producing quality products which will first meet the domestic demand and then get established on the global market, to ultimately strengthen the economy," Giorgi Gakharia, Prime Minister of Georgia said at his meeting with the employees of fruit processing enterprise 'Karelis Khili' Wednesday.

The PM noted that the company is a good example of successful production, as its output is 75 tons of various dry fruit a year, which is sold on the domestic and export markets.

He highlighted that the Anti-Crisis Plan of the Government of Georgia aims to make sure that people engaged in agriculture keep their jobs, irrespective of the crisis, while farmers will quickly overcome the disturbances.

The company has built an orchard of peaches on 1 ha of land, and plum on 10 ha, with the support of the state program 'Plant Your Future,'  and funding of over 50,000 GEL. Total sales of the enterprise in the last two years have increased by 65%. Apart from being the first Georgian company to offer dry fruit in fancy packaging, it employs 45 local residents.

The Prime Minister of Georgia visited the enterprise together with Levan Davitashvili, Minister of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia, and Giorgi Khojevanishvili, State Representative in Shida Kartli.