Plant the Future: New orchards will be planted in Georgia’s Shida Kartli region
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New orchards will be planted on 365ha in Georgia’s Shida Kartli region within the state-run project Plant the Future, aiming to stimulate the region’s agricultural industry.
In total, 51 beneficiaries have received funding from Georgia’s Agricultural Project Management Agency to cultivate the new orchards.
One of the beneficiaries, Davit Beruashvili, has already started planting a new orchard in Shida Kartli’s Shindisi village. Beruashvili was offered 24,650 GEL financial assistance from the Agency to cultivate a plum and wild plum orchards on 5.1ha of land.
Today, Director of Georgia’s Agricultural Project Management Agency and several officials visited Shindisi to oversee the orchard planting.
The Government said the Plant the Future campaign, which started in 2015, would help farmers produce high quality products that would compete with imported products in the local market. At the same time, this should increase the export potential of Georgia’s agricultural products.
Entrepreneurs who wished to create a garden were offered enough funds to cover 70 percent of plant costs and 50 percent of the cost of an irrigation system. For people wishing to establish a nursery, successful candidates will be offered 50 percent of their total costs.
At the same time, project beneficiaries will benefit from the agricultural credit program; where farming cooperatives will receive pesticide sprayers as a gift, the soil testing laboratory costs will be reimbursed for all beneficiaries, and they will be offered practical trainings and theory courses to improve their farming skills.
The project envisaged the creation of 1,000-1,200ha of modern-type gardens and between 30 and 40 new nurseries in 2016. In total five million GEL will be spent on Plant the Future project this year, announced Georgia’s Agriculture Ministry.
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