Revenues of phyto-sanitary service increase due to increased transparency

In the first half of this year the volume of extra-budgetary revenues of the State Phytosanitary Service (SFS) of the Ministry of Agriculture amounted to 1.732.000 manat,  by 1.7 times more than in all of 2015. This is the result of the new model of pest surveillance and ensuring financial transparency,  on the results of the meeting of the Board  of the Ministry. There  is a 30%  increase of the  volume  of SFS  over  first six months of 2016compared with  the same period in the 2007-2013 year.

According to the decision of the Tariff Council of 2005, SFS provides Phytosanitary Surveillance Services to businesses and individuals on the phytosanitary quarantine inspection of imported goods, disposal of quarantine of plants and products, places and means of storage and transport, laboratory analysis and inspection at the established rate.

According to the  Ministry of Agriculture, over  six months of this year has been banned imports of 48 tons of potatoes due to the presence  of harmful organisms in it. During this period, phytosanitary service destroyed about 90 tons of food products, while 2014 the figure was only 2.5 tons. 08D