Farmers from Kakheti region receive 76 mln GEL income from grape harvest
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Farmers from Georgia’s eastern Kakheti region, famous for its ancient tradition of winemaking, have received 76.6 million GEL (31 mln USD) through selling their grapes to wineries, official figures read.
The figures are for today and the income is expected to rise as the harvesting period has not been completed yet.
65.000 tons of grapes have been processed in the region.
- 28,5 thousand tons of Rkatsiteli.
- 32,000 tons of Saperavi.
- 2,000 tons of Kakhuri Mtsvane.
100 wineries are involved in the grape processing. The total amount of the vineries registered to process grapes is 200.
Georgia’s National Wine Agency says that 18.6 thousand tons of grapes have already been processed in Georgia’s eastern Kakheti region.
As summer draws to an end Georgia’s grape harvest season is just beginning with experts estimating 150,000 tonnes of grapes this year will be picked.
Georgia is getting ready for the major harvest season during which more than a hundred thousand tonnes of grapes will be picked, packed and sold locally or exported.
The Government of Georgia is supporting the wine sector ahead of the major harvest season during which more than a hundred thousand tonnes of grapes will be picked, packed and sold locally or exported.
The grape harvest is continuing actively in Georgia’s eastern wine region of Kakheti, where as of today, 85,000 tonnes of grape has already been processed.
The grape harvest is almost over in Georgia's main wine growing region Kakheti but the action continues in the northwestern Racha-Lechkhumi region, where a small amount of very unique grapes are grown.
"Since independence we have not sold so many wines in terms of quantity as well as in terms of amount of money,” said Georgia’s Agriculture Minister Levan Davitashvili who today summarised the grape harvest of 2017.
The government of Georgia has decided not to subsidise the grape harvest this year, announces the Minister of Environment Protection and Agriculture Levan Davitashvili.