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Getting fruit and vegetables from the fields to the table is extra challenging amid COVID-19 – from restrictions on movement to high transport costs and closed markets. The sector is also facing big changes in demand and prices. While the prices of some products are skyrocketing, especially those thought to boost...

When you think of tea growing countries, Georgia and Azerbaijan might not immediately spring to mind. But the two have a long history steeped in tea production dating back to the nineteenth century. By the 1980s, they were supplying most of the tea consumed in the then Soviet Union. Their once booming...

To bring transformative solutions to agriculture in response to the Covid-19 crisis and to build resilience of farmers that may be affected by the current state of emergency in the country, the European Union (EU), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Ministry of Environmental Protection...

Over  twenty representatives of private nurseries participated in the first three-day technical webinar launched by FAO under the EU-funded project, “EU Innovative Action for Private Sector Competitiveness in Georgia”. The online webinar trained entrepreneurs in how to produce high quality, certified seedlings, with additional focus on the development of the...

The Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia, in cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and under the financial support of Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC) are offering small grant investments to farmers and cooperatives. Starting from today, for a three-week period the residents...