Georgian Government Launches United Agro Project

TBILISI – The Georgian government on Tuesday officially launched the United Agro Project, an umbrella organization designed to streamline the state’s ability to keep citizens and other interested parties up-to-date on existing programs and new agricultural services.

Six key agricultural programs have been included on the list including Georgian Tea, Plant the Future, Assist Smallholder Farmers to Conduct Spring Works, Agro Insurance, Preferential Agro Credit and Enterprise Co-Financing.

The public will be able to use the single platform project to gather information, resolve outstanding issues and remain in close contact with state officials.

The project aims to resolve many of the outstanding issues that Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili said continue to plague the country’s lucrative agricultural industry.

Government representatives were quick to highlight recent achievements in their attempt to overhaul the agricultural industry’s notoriously slow and bureaucratic procedures. According to the state’s claims, 150 new enterprises have recently been registered, and 700 others enlarged over the same period. Over 700,000 farmers have received annual financial support for agricultural works, and more than 200,000 hectares of land has been cultivated since 2013.

By Eka Karsaulidze