SPECIAL CONTROL DEPARTMENT OF IMPORT AND EXPORT OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS WILL BE ESTABLISHED IN ARMENIA

ARKA
March 9, 2010

YEREVAN, March 9. /ARKA/. Tigran Sargsyan, Prime Minister of Armenia
met with the members of National Association of Farmers and assigned
the Armenian Ministry of Agriculture to establish special department
jointly with the Association which will deal with regulation of import
and export.

Sargsyan emphasized the importance of development of effective
cooperation model which will control implementation of joint programs.

The Department will deal with the issues of agriculture, particularly
livestock breeding.

"Today we should discuss your visions of the problems and priority
issues of the State for the provision of serious progress in the
sphere of livestock breeding", said Sargsyan.

Members of the Association thanked the Prime Minister for the attention
of the government regarding agriculture sphere.

They raised a number of issues, mainly related to the sphere of poultry
keeping, potato growing, fruit-growing, bee keeping and sheep breeding.

Priority issues were expansion of export opportunities for agricultural
products, improvement of legislative field and long-term development
model in agriculture.

Sargsyan made relevant assignments to Gerasim Alaverdyan, Armenian
Minister of Agriculture for solving the main problems.