Avag Harutyunyan points out changes necessary for Armenian wine industry development
15.05.2018,
14:23
Avag Harutyunyan, head of the National Wine Center, has presented the package of changes the Armenian government should implement to develop the industry.
YEREVAN, May 15. /ARKA/. Avag Harutyunyan, head of the National Wine Center, has presented the package of changes the Armenian government should implement to develop the industry.
“Before working out a long-term development strategy for agriculture, the government should take certain important steps to develop wine industry – to maintain grape prices and supply principles for the present season, rid the wine and brandy industry of counterfeit products (when shoddy products are sold as high-quality products) and implement the land reform,” he said.
The land reform should imply the use of more than 30,000 hectares of fertile land, which had been abandoned for years, Harutyunyan said.
In his words, the government should give one or two years to land owners for investing money in their land strips and using them for agriculture. Otherwise, the land strips will be put under the national jurisdiction.
“But, of course, this should be done on the conditions beneficial to land owners.
Harutyunyan said that today Armenia has a historical chance to change its image in wine industry.
The country’s grape output, he said, shrank by 30,000 tons in 2018, compared with 2017, to 60,000 tons.
In 2017, wine output grew 30% to 8,852,500 liters. --0---
“Before working out a long-term development strategy for agriculture, the government should take certain important steps to develop wine industry – to maintain grape prices and supply principles for the present season, rid the wine and brandy industry of counterfeit products (when shoddy products are sold as high-quality products) and implement the land reform,” he said.
The land reform should imply the use of more than 30,000 hectares of fertile land, which had been abandoned for years, Harutyunyan said.
In his words, the government should give one or two years to land owners for investing money in their land strips and using them for agriculture. Otherwise, the land strips will be put under the national jurisdiction.
“But, of course, this should be done on the conditions beneficial to land owners.
Harutyunyan said that today Armenia has a historical chance to change its image in wine industry.
The country’s grape output, he said, shrank by 30,000 tons in 2018, compared with 2017, to 60,000 tons.
In 2017, wine output grew 30% to 8,852,500 liters. --0---
