New minister of Agriculture of Ajara visited Agroservice centre

Today, Lasha Komakhidze, the new minister of Agriculture of Ajara visited Agroservice centre. Gocha Beridze, director of Agroservice centre presented new minister of agriculture to colleagues and he introduced the activities of the centre to the minister.

Meeting was held in question-and-answer session. “We are continuing to implement those projects, what we already started, from August we will start to work on the projects for 2017, all important issues will be analyzed and reflected in upcoming projects”. – said the minister.

The Minister visited Chakvi citrus nursery thrifts and vine and fruit trees thrifts in Gvara, Minister was introduced to the importance of scientific research in nurseries. He also visited high technology sweet pepper and strawberry greenhouse.

The name of Lasha Komakhidze is connected with the very important projects like establishing extensial model of rural development in Ajara.  He has been working in this direction for years. He implemented EU project ENPARD in the frames of United Nations Development Program. Participated in development of Agriculture cooperatives, as a result of which 77 cooperatives were established and funded with more than 700 000 Euro; by the way income of more than 350 farmers was increased by 60-70%.