Armenian Agriculture Ministry develops program for intense development of human potential in agriculture sphere

ArmInfo. The Armenian Ministry  of Agriculture, together with UNDP (United Nations Development  Program (UNDP), is developing an experimental program called "Shares  of Social Investments" with a budget of $ 400ty for sustainable  development of human potential, Armenian Deputy Agriculture Minister  Armen Harutyunyan told reporters on December 19. .

In fact, as explained by Harutyunyan, the Ministry of Agriculture  will identify the companies that are most effective in the field of  consulting and set clear requirements for them, for example, in the  direction of improving the quality of milk and the productivity of  the sphere. "If the organization is honored to cope with the task, it  will receive payment for the work, otherwise, this work will not be  paid," said Harutyunyan. Financing of the program will be $ 400tys,  and Armenia will see its first results as early as 2018.  Besides the  given program, with the aim of improving consulting in the  agrosphere, Armenia is working with the Fund for Agricultural  Development, as well as with the private sector, which already  operates 19 private centers. Within the framework of activities aimed  at improving the quality of education of specialists in the field,  the Academy of Viniculture EVN and the Armenian Agribusiness Training  Center are preparing a project for retraining personnel for  greenhouse vegetable growing. At this stage, the question is solved  in which region the first scientific and educational center will be  opened, where future agronomists will be retrained.