ArmInfo. Karen Karapetyan, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, in the run up to the irrigation season instructed the top managers of authorized entities to study the inconformity between the lands actually irrigated and those fixed as irrigated but actually not maintained.
The Prime Minister reminded that due to summary data of State Water Committee under the Ministry of Energy Infrastructure and Natural Resources, today the irrigation is implemented actually only at 47% of the territories deinf fixed in the Cadaster of irrigated lands. "We consider this indicator unacceptable," the prime Minister stated. Proceeding of the mentioned above, the prime Minister instructed the Ministers of Agriculture, Territorial Administration and Development, Energy Infrastructures and Natural Resources, and the State Water Resources Committee to implement within 10 day term the appropriate studies in 10 communities having higher level of derivation from the cultivation norms, and to present justifications.