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Deputy Minister of Agriculture Levan Davitashvili attended the 30th FAO Regional Conference for Europe in Antalya. Turkey hosted delegations from FAO member countries from Europe and the Central Asia region, as well as observer countries and United Nations agencies. During the Regional Conference, Davitashvili met with FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da...

To illustrate the different kinds of technical assistance provided by FAO under the European Neighbourhood Programme for Agriculture and Rural Development (ENPARD) in Georgia, FAO and the European Union Delegation in Georgia organized a joint conference in Brussels DEVCO Infopoint. Mr. Mathieu Bousquet, head of unit in DG NEAR, introduced the...

Up to 208 tonnes of outdated pesticides (substances used for destroying insects or other organisms harmful to cultivated plants) collected on Georgian territory are being transported from a temporary storage facility to France for final incineration.   Such hazardous and obsolete chemicals have been stored in Georgia and other post-Soviet countries since...

Twenty Georgian milk farm owners and specialists studied modern milk production technologies during a ten-day seminar in Ukraine. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) -- through the second phase of the Improving Food Safety in Georgia's Dairy Sector project...

FAO equipped a new laboratory in village of Tsilkani operated by the Scientific-Research Centre (SRC) of the Ministry of Agriculture with all the necessary equipment for seed quality control. Seed samplers, a microscope, a germination cabinet, a safety cabinet and other laboratory equipment will  allow experts to conduct seed quality...