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CROP AND FOOD SUPPLY SITUATION IN ARMENIA - 8 August 2000 |
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62274 |
| Language: |
EN |
| Document type: |
Book |
| Description: |
The report presents the results of a recent FAO/WFP Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission to the country to obtain up to date information on the prospects for food production in 2000, to identify the constraints to increasing food production and assess the food supply situation. Throughout its work, the Mission received cooperation from the Government, the EC, and particularly the Food Security Programme, the World Bank, the GTZ, all UN agencies present as well as national farmers' organizations. The Mission made field visits to the Ararat Valley (Masis, Echmiadzin), as well as Talin and Aparan in Aragatsotn marz, which enabled it to observe fields and interview farmers in very different agro-climatic zones ranging from the fertile, irrigated Ararat valley near the capital Yerevan to the colder mountainous zones. Crop production in Armenia is stagnating. Grain output in 1999 is officially estimated at 301 000 tonnes, not significantly more than output in 1991, despite an 11 percent increase in the area sown since that year. Although still higher than in 1991, the area sown to cereals has contracted since 1997 in response to low per hectare returns for many farmers and import competition. Moreover, if cereals displaced fruit, fodder and vine crops substituted in the 1990s, now there is evidence of the re-diversion of wheat area to vineyards and tobacco. Net emigration and the undeveloped land market has led to a significant increase in the areas under fodder crops. |
| Publication year: |
2000 |
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| Job number: |
X7953 |
| Department: |
ES |
| Division: |
EST |
| Series title: |
Special Reports and Alerts |
| Country: |
Armenia |
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| French |
SITUATION DES RÉCOLTES ET DES DISPONIBILITÉS ALIMENTAIRES EN ARMÉNIE - 8 août 2000 |
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