ArmInfo. The main focus area of work of the Agriculture Ministry is to form state-private sector partnership and introduce mechanisms ensuring unimpeded development of the field, Agriculture Minister Ignatiy Arakelyan stated at the press conference on the results of the year on December 24.
"Within 3 months we have been analyzing all the programs with the state's participation, which are being implemented in Armenia. Meetings were held with purchasing enterprises in order to understand the essence of the problems and find ways for their solution, as well as to focus on those enterprises, which possibly will need governmental support", Arakelyan stated.
To note, as of the end of October total debt of processing enterprises of Armenia to farmers totaled around 800 mln drams. As of now almost half of the debt has been redeemed due to work of the Agriculture Ministry. In October Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan harshly criticized the management system of the enterprises purchasing products from farmers and instructed to develop a long-term concept of procedures for purchase of grape and other agricultural products. As a result as Agriculture Minister Ignatiy Arakelyan noted the enterprises cannot remain in debt forever and in case of their bankruptcy the state will use external control mechanism. Recently the Agriculture Ministry has applied to the General Prosecutor's Office aiming to restore the breached rights of the farmer enterprises in the context of debts.
