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Despite being a predominantly rural country, Georgia suffers from extensive issues related to agricultural development. To this end, ENPARD, a European Union rural development program, has assisted with the establishment of a number of cooperatives throughout the country. The success stories of two of these prompted a recent visit by members of the Agricultural Policy Research Centre.
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Georgian agricultural development has received significant attention lately, and it remains one of the most pressing issues facing the country. Yet proper development comes only as a result of comprehensive understanding, and so a study by UNDP Georgia, Swiss Cooperate South Caucasus, and the Ministry of Agriculture, in partnership with ISET and ACT, a research company, entitled 'What are the knowledge needs of Georgian farmers?' was initiated.
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ISET’s Pati Mamardashvili and her co-authors Grigorios Emvalomatis (University of Dundee) and Pierrick Jan (Agroscope, Switzerland) have recently published their research in the Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (JARE). The JARE is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes creative and scholarly economic studies in the fields of agriculture, natural resources, and other related areas.
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2016 წლის 2 ივნისს თბილისის საგამოფენო ცენტრში გაიმართა საქართველოს ფერმერთა მეორე კონგრესი, რომელსაც ევროკავშირი აფინანსებდა. საქართველოს სხვადასხვა კუთხეებიდან ჩამოსულ 150-მდე ფერმერს საშუალება ჰქონდა, შეხვედროდა მთავრობის წარმომადგენლებს და განეხილა ქართულ სოფლის მეურნეობაში არსებული გამოწვევები.
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