Tuesday, January 30 2018 19:11

ArmInfo. The Ministry of  Agriculture of Armenia is developing a leasing program for the  development of small and medium-sized greenhouse farms in order to  stimulate a small family business and increase production efficiency.  Minister of Agriculture of Armenia Ignaty Arakelyan informed about it  during the meeting with the chairman of the Association of Greenhouse  Farms of the RA Poghos Gevorgyan and representatives of the sphere.

According to the press service of the ministry, along with this, the  Ministry is working on the development of a program for the  installation of refrigeration equipment, which will ensure proper  storage of products for export.

Representatives of the sphere, present at the meeting, raised the  issue of import of Turkish vegetables and fruits; the possibility of  conducting laboratory tests of the quality of fertilizers and  pesticides; training of qualified specialists and a number of other  issues. In order to expand and develop the sphere, the meeting  participants stressed the importance of providing loans at affordable  interest rates. To that, I. Arakelyan noted that with the aim of  solving all the problems presented, the Ministry will work on the  development of the program, which it will submit to the RA government  for consideration.