Armenian Agriculture Minister and Pum Foundation representative discussed cooperation enlargement issues

ArmInfo. On February 8, the  Minister of Agriculture Ignati Araqelyan and the PUM Netherlands  senior experts to Armenia Coordinator Albert Westerings discussed the  issues of enlargement of cooperation in the given sector. 

As the Ministry's press-service told ArmInfo, according to the  Minister, highly qualified personnel is needed for the further  development of the agriculture. Araqelyan hopes that the organization  will support the retraining of Armenian specialists 

PUM Netherlands senior experts, is a Fund funded by the Netherlands'  Government, which hold experience and knowledge exchanges between the  businessmen around the world More than 30 years. The Fund supports  the MA on volunteer bases and hold short-term consulting. Taking to  consideration the successful experience of Netherlands in the sector  of agriculture, the Minister offered to develop the cooperation in  the field of beekeeping.

In his turn, Albert Westerings noted that the sector is in the center  of the Fund's interest and expressed readiness to support the  organization if seminars.

The sides discussed the increase of the representation of Armenian  products on foreign markets, the prospects for raising the  competitiveness of local products and successful marketing in the  field.