A country-wide competition in Georgia that is reaching out to all age groups aims to generate new interest in and knowledge of agriculture. The Olympiad competition, part of an Austria-funded FAO project, will see contestants battle in one out in four categories – farmer, student, schoolchildren, practitioner – with the ten top performers (in online tests) from each category progressing to the final soon.

Ultimately, winners will be chosen from the four categories, and apart from the honour, there are some great prizes at stake – such as internship opportunities for students and schoolchildren, agricultural-supplies vouchers for farmers, and research grants for practitioners. The unique competition aims to promote the agricultural sector and its various branches, strengthen formal and informal agrarian education, and create a mechanism for evaluating professional knowledge.