Media Review - 01/03/2019

In the Agsu district, on the territory of Arabsarvan municipality of 1,000 hectares, a new agro park is being created, the Azerbaijan newspaper writes.

A pilot irrigation system has already been created here that can irrigate 500 hectares.

Corn, barley and alfalfa will be grown here.

Six barns for breeding dairy pedigree cows have also been built. Four million liters of milk are expected to be produced annually.

Four sheds for fattening 1,000 cows are also being built to produce 600 tons of meat.

In addition, feed plants with a capacity of 10 tons and a seed plant capable of 5 tons are being built.

In total, there are 13 agro parks in Azerbaijan and in 2019-2020 their number is planned to be increased to 45.

An expert in the field of education, Etibar Aliyev, raises the problem of the lack of textbooks for schoolchildren in preparation for international competitions in mathematics, physics, chemistry, and computer science.

Talents leave the country. In higher schools in the natural and technical sciences there are practically no translated textbooks. Students study textbooks of 1980-90.

The newspaper Yeni Musavat writes about reforms in the agrarian sector in 2018 after a change of leadership in this department.

To deepen the transformation the Agrarian Research and Innovation Center has been created.

It also points to the restructuring of OJSC Agroleasing, where corruption was widespread in the past.

For the transparent distribution of financial assistance, an Agency for Credits and Development in the agricultural sector has been created.

From this year, the privatization of agricultural services will begin.

The process of voluntary association of farmers into cooperatives has also begun.

In 2019, the creation of an e-agriculture information system will be completed.

"The cotton adventure was a blow to the livestock industry," writes the online version of the Azadlig newspaper.

The agricultural expert Vahid Maharramli indicates a sharp increase in meat imports in 2018.

Compared to 2017, the volume of imports in monetary terms increased by 9.5%, and in physical volume it grew by 16.3%.

Compared to 2015, meat imports in terms of money increased by 3.7 times, and in physical weight - by 4.3 times.

At the same time, the situation in cotton-growing is also not bright. Instead of the 40 quintals per hectare declared by President Ilham Aliyev, this figure was 2 times less. -0-