THE SECURITY ISSUES OF THE FOODSTUFF

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02:56 pm 28 March, 2006

The NA Deputy Tatul Manaseryan, the Vice-Deputy of the Ministry of
Agriculture Gagik Khachatryan and the representatives of a few public
organizations discussed the security issues of the RA foodstuff and
the ways of their solving during the round table organized in the
National Academy of Science.

The key issues of the discussion were the exertion of new economic
methods available for peasants, the full investments in the legislative
sphere, the regulation of the product export and partial competitive
field.

In Tatul Manaseryan’s opinion it is difficult to rename the former
markets nowadays. The reason for that is the abundance of low quality
products imported to the country and the shadow state of the local
manufacturer. This fact is determined by the absence of appropriate
monitoring and right presentation. “We mustn’t suffice ourselves with
financing peasants and the right export organization,” mentioned Mr.
Manaseryan.

The Vice-Deputy Gagik Khachatryan mentioned that problems of food
security which are also components of the national security are in
the centre of attention of the Armenian population as well as of the
international society. He claims that our legal field must comply
with the international, especially of the European criteria for the
regulation of export issues.

A group has been formed for this purpose in the correspondent
department of the Ministry which works out programs of implementation
of the whole legal field in the Republic within the coming 3 years. “I
admit that everything is not ideal in our country. But one can’t deny
the fact that something is being done.

It mainly refers to the export, to the products of animal origin and
to Armenian honey. A lot of serious steps are made on this score. We
are going to accredit Armenian honey in Europe after the results of
an appropriate laboratory examination,” added Gagik Khachatryan.

The Chairman of the public organization “Farmers’ Movement” Sargis
Setrakyan mentioned that before demanding the quality of the export
attention must be paid to the quality of imported fertilizers. This
assumes full support to the peasant. The Vice-Deputy said that on
this score they will be given 15 million credit with annual 10% for
7 years’ time with 18 months privileged period. This sum will help
the peasants to buy the necessary equipment and fertilizer.